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Issue: 55 October 2012
UK Government Halal Consultation:
Halal Under Threat
holding deep reservations and fears
that its aim are to further curtail religious
freedoms of expression, but this is
disguised with bias, unproven science and
often baseless animal welfare concerns.
The legislation obliges FBO’s (food
business operators) to ensure animals
are spared avoidable pain, distress
or suffering and requires measures to
be taken to ensure key animal welfare
concerns. Islam and Judaism both have
this as a core concern and in principle
would therefore would welcome this
legislation if that was the real motive.
The good news is that both Jewish
and Muslim communities are now reading
the 132 page document and ANSA is
compiling detailed response guidelines to
advise all partners how to formulate to the
point response.
ANSA is working together with over 70
religious organisations from all branches
DEFRA has finally
launched its consultation
paper covering the
re-drafting of current
legislation that provides
protection for Halal and
Kosher religious dietary
needs. The consultation
on Welfare of Animals at
the Time of Killing will see
the final implementation of
EEC Council Regulation
(EC) 1099/2009 into UK
law.
The consultation
document is more than
6 months overdue and is
now being pushed through
and will kick into on the
first of January 2013.
Both Jewish and
Muslim communities have
until 24 October 2012 to
defend religious slaughter
in an unfamiliar modernday
process for any real
consultation or dialogue.
Mohammed Saleem
Policy and communication
director (Association of
Non stun Abattoirs) said
“This tactical manoeuvre
by Defra and confirms
suspicion of ulterior
motives!”
The Jewish and Muslim
communities has already
called the consultation
exercise a monologue,
of Islam, including: MCB, Bradford
Council for Mosques, M.U.S.E, Jewish
Certification Boards and other Halal
industry partners to protect the threats
to Halal and Kosher ANSA has begun
detailed in-depth analysis of the proposed
regulations and consultation with partners
and stakeholders.
The point to Note is that Defra is
looking to change the definition of the
religious slaughter to include recoverable
stun.
The very definition of religious
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2 I LOCAL & NATIONAL NEWS Passion Islam I October 2012
t h e P a s s i o n
By Abu Sufyan
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If Racism exist in Football
Are FA to blame?
It’s been a question that has been
asked on numerous occasions
but never has an answer been
given with that can convince where
racism lay in football.
My theory has always been that
it lays with the FA, I personally have
had few dialogues with several
individuals at the FA and up to now,
none of them have been able to
convince me that they actively are
trying to encourage more people
from Asian/Muslim backgrounds
come in on a coaching level or on a
playing level.
FA will tell you that, the talent
is not out there is a lack Asian/
Muslim managers and players
but this is far from the truth, if you
travel the country. The evidence is
clear young Asian/Muslims playing
football and not just on the roads
and nearby park but in local football
clubs, there are thousands of local
Asian/Muslim FA qualified coaches
who taken their respected teams
in leagues across the UK and won
championships.
So what is going wrong with the
FA? Why have the FA ignored the
Asian/ Muslim Talent? Why aren’t
they not willing to work with Asian/
Muslim clubs and why it that the FA
is still ignorant to the situation?
Only FA can answer that,
Passion Islam itself have tried to
work with the FA but I am afraid we
have been unsuccessful, we even
offered them free use of our pages
to promote the game to attract
more Asian /Muslim to become FA
Qualified coaches.
Write to: Editor, Passion Islam, PO Box 159, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 1AD
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Passion Islam I October 2012 NEWS I 3
Government assisting
US in drone targets
There is “pretty compelling” evidence
that Government listening post
GCHQ is passing information to
the US to help it locate targets for
controversial drone attacks, it was
claimed.
Former director of public
prosecutions Lord Macdonald said
the British people had a right to know
if the agency was helping American
secret services to find al Qaida and
Taliban targets in Pakistan.
Pakistan has repeatedly
protested over the unmanned
attacks claiming it is a
“violation of its sovereignty
and international law”.
Lord Macdonald told
The Times: “The evidence
is pretty compelling that
we are providing that
kind of information to the
Americans... The British
people have a right to know
about the policies being pursued by
their Government.”
He added: “I’ve been to Pakistan
and I have seen what drone strikes
can do. Innocent people do get killed
as a result of misplaced strikes.
It is also succeeding in creating
a new generation of people with
huge resentment against the West,
fuelling the kind of terrorism we are
trying to fight. The fact this is onesided,
mechanised and robotic gives
these strikes a particularly sinister
dimension.”
It comes after reports that a
GCHQ official admitted the agency
was proud of providing “locational
intelligence” to the CIA.
Lord Macdonald said: “If that is
right, it strikes me as difficult for the
Government to sustain the position
that they are not going to comment.
Presumably if GCHQ are saying
that, then one presumes they are
reflecting government policy in
saying it.”
Earlier this year David Anderson,
the independent reviewer of
terrorism legislations, warned the
Government faces a raft of civil
cases over possible complicity.
A Foreign Office spokesman said:
“It’s the UK’s long-standing policy not
to comment on intelligence matters.”

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Islamic books sales
rise by almost a third
Islamic books sales increase by
almost a third in UK after the release
of the anti-Islam movie.
The sales of Islamic books in
Britain have increased by nearly a
third, after the video-sharing website
YouTube released an offensive USmade
film about Prophet Mohammad
(PBUH), new figures show.
According to recent statistics,
following the screening of the
blasphemous anti-Islam movie,
Islamic books sales in the UK have
risen by 30 percent.
Book sellers in public libraries
of the West of England announced
increases between 20 and 30
percent in their printed materials
which were about the glorious Faith
of Islam, compared to previous
months’ figures.
Workers at book shops in London
Britain’s largest unions body the
Trades Unions Congress (TUC)
representing 6.2 million working
people in the UK is to vote on a
motion in order to express solidarity
with Palestinians who are living in the
besieged Gaza Strip.
The union, which campaigns for a
fair deal at work and for social justice
at home and abroad, will decide by
voting on the proposal, including
calls from international charities
told the Saudi news channel Al
Arabiya that many British citizens
are looking for books that explain
the true divine religion of Islam and a
large number of them are also trying
to find translated versions of the holy
Qur’an.
Earlier this month, an initiative
was launched in Britain in order
to encounter bias against Islam,
following outrage among Muslims
around the world triggered by the
sacrilegious film.
The initiative commissioned by a
London organization, Discover Islam,
distributes copies of the Muslims
holy book Qur’an and other materials
about the life of Prophet Muhammad
(PBUH) in English to non-Muslims
with the aim of educating them about
the divine faith.
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TUC to vote on Gaza solidarity motion
and UN Agencies to end the Israeli
regime’s blockade on Gaza.
Moves to tighten a boycott grip
on the Israeli regime have gained
momentum in the UK since April,
when Britain’s fifth-largest food
retailer, the Co-operative Group,
extended a boycott of goods from
illegal settlements that have been
produced on occupied Palestinian
territories in the West Bank.
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UK Government
Halal Consultation:
Halal Under
Threat
Continued from Front page
slaughter under which both jews
and muslims dietary laws are
safe guarded under is threatened.
Sadly some Organisation
claiming to be the defenders of
Non stun have tabled this motion
of recoverable stun at Defra,
which is the real back bone to the
this threat.
Once they achieve this then
there is greater risk of the nonstun
to being banned.
ANSA has been working
very closely with Jewish
representatives to counteract
the treat and agreed to work
in partnership for number of
common causes.
ANSA urges all branches
of Islam to wake up to the real
threat that this legislation is likely
to have.
British Muslims need to unite
and realise that stunning is the
start the end of which will there
be ban on circumcision which
may end in removing various
other rights which we enjoy today
under the freedom of religion act.
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Passion Islam I October 2012 LOCAL & NATIONAL NEWS I 7
Anti-terror powers
may be scaled back
certain travel routes may be given
greater focus”, the consultation
document said.
A total of 73,909 people were
examined under the powers between
April 2010 and March 2011, with 915
of these detained, figures released in
the document showed.
Almost half (45%) of those
detained described themselves as
Asian or Asian British, while less than
one in 10 (8%) said they were white,
For examinations, two in five (40%)
described themselves as white, while
less than a third (28%) said they
were Asian or Asian British.
Over the last three years, from
Anti-terror powers which enable said: “The Government takes all April 2009 to March 2012, a total of
officers to stop anyone entering necessary steps to protect the public 230,236 people were examined, with
the UK and detain them without from individuals who pose a threat to 97.2% of these (almost 224,000)
reasonable suspicion could be national security.
lasting less than one hour.
scaled back, the Home Office has ”Schedule 7 measures form an Some 2.2% (about 5,000) took
said.
essential part of the UK’s border one to three hours, 0.6% (less than
Asian communities feel they are security arrangements, helping 1,400) three to six hours and 0.06%
being singled out by officers using to protect the public from those (about 140) more than six hours.
the so-called Schedule 7 powers travelling across borders to plan, David Anderson QC, the
disproportionately against ethnic finance, train for and commit
independent reviewer of terrorist
minorities, campaigners and police terrorism.
legislation, said the power had been
chiefs have warned.
”Examining people at ports and “instrumental in securing evidence
Under the proposals, the
airports is necessary to protect public which was used to convict dangerous
maximum examination time could be safety, but we want to ensure these terrorists”.
reduced from nine hours; increased powers are used proportionately, and And, refusing permission for
oversight and training could be are effective.
a judicial review of the power last
brought in, and those stopped
”This consultation seeks the December, High Court judge Mr
could be given the same rights to views of the public to help ensure we Justice Collins said the essential
publicly-funded legal advice as those get this right.”
power was “necessary in a
transferred to police stations.
The powers are “informed by the democratic society” and “the contrary
Home Secretary Theresa May current terrorist threat to the UK so is not arguable”.
10,000 signatures on e-petitions
will receive a government response
Online petitions that attract more
than 10,000 signatures are to
receive a Government response.
E-petitions that are signed by
more than 100,000 people on the
Government’s website already
become eligible for debate in the
House of Commons.
Leader of the Commons Andrew
Lansley said that those with more
than 10,000 names would trigger
a departmental response with a
statement of the Government’s
policy and details of any relevant
parliamentary activity on the subject.
Since the site was set up in July
2011, 11 petitions have had more
than 100,000 signatures, all of which
have either been debated or are due
for debate.
In a written ministerial statement,
Mr Lansley said: “E-petitions have
been an important part of increasing
public understanding of Parliament.”

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Passion Islam I October 2012 LOCAL & NATIONAL NEWS I 9
Manchester Airport to stop
using “naked” body scanners
Manchester Airport have
announced they will
stop using “naked” body
scanners.
The controversial
scanners, which allow
airport security officers
to view ghost-like body
outlines of passengers
have been trialed by the
Major exhibition at British
Museum provides new
insight into emerging role
of London as world city
four hundred years ago.
Shakespeare: staging
the world, a major
exhibition at the British
Museum provides a new
and unique insight into
the emerging role of
London as a world city
four hundred years ago,
interpreted through the
innovative perspective of
Shakespeare’s plays.
Britain’s most famous
airport.
From October 1, they
will be replaced by five new
next generation security
scanners in a trial expected
to last three months.
In line with Government
policy, these include a
feature which automatically
processes images of
Exhibition highlights
Shakespeare’s fascination
with Islamic world
playwright, described by
his friend Ben Johnson as
“not for an age but for all
time,” was fascinated by
the Muslim world. He may
have recalled the visit of
Abd Abd el-Ouahed ben
Messaoud ben Mohammed
Anoun, the Moroccan
Ambassador to Queen
Elizabeth I, who was sent
by Muley Hamet King
of Morocco to negotiate
a global alliance with
Elizabeth 1 against Spain.
The exhibition ends on
25th November 2012.
passengers using a
system that eliminates the
need for an airport security
officer to view the ghostlike
body outlines that
made the airport’s body
scanners famous.
The new machines,
manufactured by L3, scan
passengers using radio
frequency-based millimetre
wave technology rather
than the low dose x-rays
used by the current back
scatter body scanners.
A computer analyses
the scans and tell airport
staff where to look for
hidden objects using a
stick figure diagram.
A similar technology is
used in safety systems to
identify humans or objects
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Passion Islam I October 2012 LOCAL & NATIONALI 11
Euro MPs condemn
UK role in CIA torture
Britain decided to shelve its heavilycriticised
Gibson Inquiry into torture
and rendition.
In its new report, the EU
parliament “called on the UK to
conduct [a future] inquiry with due
transparency, allowing the effective
participation of victims and civil
society.”
British campaigners welcomed
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“This comprehensive statement
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key role in the CIA’s programme of
torture and rendition”, said Reprieve
The role Britain and other EU states
played in the US’ Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) torture and rendition
programme has been strongly
condemned by the European
Parliament.
The parliament denounced EU
member states for failing to launch a
probe into serious cases of human
rights violations associated with the
CIA programme.
Previous probes into these cases
have been hampered by lack of
transparency, prevalence of political
interests, restriction of victims’ right
to effective participation and lack of
rigorous investigative techniques.
However, the parliament urged
Britain to carry out a new and
transparent probe into the role
the country has played in the
mistreatment of detainees, several
of them abducted as part of the socalled
“war on terror”. This comes as
investigator Crofton Black.
“Countries including Britain,
Romania and Lithuania have failed
to carry out the necessary inquiries
into the part they played in some of
the worst human rights abuses of the
war on terror”, Crofton Black added.
A new inquiry is needed to allow
victims and the general public to
know what happened during the dark
period of rendition cover-up, said
Amnesty International policy adviser
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Passion Islam I October 2012 WORLD NEWS I 13
Religious leader calls for
imposing sanctions on US
He endorsed the statement of
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Khameneˈie that Iran will not
relinquish its peaceful nuclear right
said that Iran is a brave nation and
has stood up firmly against the
western plots.
ˈI stress that the Islamic Republic
of Iran has never been after acquiring
nuclear weapons and that it will
never give up the right of its people
to use nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes,” said the Supreme Leader
in his address to XVI Tehran Non-
Member of Pakistan’s main religious
party called for slapping sanctions
on US for using and developing
weapons of mass destruction.
The Deputy Secretary General
of Jamaat-e-Islami Dr. Farid Ahmad
Paracha said that the US has no
right to object nuclear programs of
the other countries, especially those
of the Muslim countries.
The political leader was of the
opinion that Canada has taken
the decision to end its diplomatic
relations with Iran under the
American and Zionists regimesˈ
pressure. He added that the
Canadian people would not support
the Canadian governmentˈ decision
in this regard.
“This step would ultimately
create problems for the Canadian
Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as
the world’s largest crude producer
in July, just one month after the
kingdom took the top spot for the first
time in six years.
Production in Saudi Arabia,
OPEC’s largest producer, fell to 9.8
million barrels a day (bpd) in July,
down from 10.1 million bpd the
previous month, according to data
from the Joint Organization Data
Initiative.
government,” viewed the Jamaat-e-
Islami leader.
He added that the west is
following a biased and unrealistic
policy towards the world Muslims.
He strongly believed that the US
and the Zionist regime is behind
all conspiracies against Muslims
throughout the world.
Dr. Farid Ahmad Paracha
expressing his views said that the
Muslim countries can solve the crisis
in Syria by themselves and the west
should not be worried about that. He
went on to say that the west is trying
to create differences of opinion and
dsiputes among Muslim Ummah.
The religious leader said that the
sanctions have boosted the progress
of Iran adding that conspiracies to
weaken Iran will fail.
Russia pumped 9.92 million bpd
in July, up by 20,000 barrels from
June, said the website.
Saudi Arabia production reached a
31-year high in March as the Gulf
state moved to compensate for
declining Iranian exports.
The Gulf state offered customers
in the US, Europe and Asia oil
supplies through to the end of the
year in a sign that the kingdom is
concerned about the impact of rising
Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit.
Dr. Farid Ahmad Paracha said
that the success of the NAM summit
has proved that yjr non-aligned world
is standing with Iran.
“The success of NAM summit is
an eye-opener for the US,” said the
deputy secretary general of Jamaate-Islami.
He asked why is it that the west
is stopping Muslim countries from
developing nuclear programs but
ignoring the Israeli nuclear arsenal.
“The west must quit its lingering
policy of observing double standards
in its foreign policy,” he added.
He said that the aggressive
policies of President Obama would
definitely hit his political future.
Jamaat-e-Islami leader said that
the people of America are critical of
Obama policies.
Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia
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oil prices on the global economy.
“We are consulting our clients
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14 I WORLD NEWS Passion Islam I October 2012
Dubai to build its
first ‘eco-mosque’
preservation and sustainability
factors.
“Following the successful
completion of this landmark initiative,
AMAF aims to transform a large
number of mosques in Dubai to ecofriendly
mosques and adopt green
building standards to contribute to
Dubai’s sustainable development
plans.”
Work on the mosque itself is
due to begin very soon, and Al Arif’s
teams are gearing up for the project.
During the implementation of the
project, Al Arif will work closely with a
specialist consultant to develop green
building standards that will prioritise
the provision of green spaces and
use of solar panels.
Al Arif Contracting has been awarded
the contract for the construction
and maintenance of the UAE’s first
eco-friendly mosque, and what will
also be Dubai’s largest mosque upon
completion in 18 months time.
An initiative of Awqaf and Minors
Affairs Foundation (AMAF) the 3,500-
worshipper mosque is to be built on a
9,755 sqm plot near the Clock Tower
Roundabout in the Bur Saeed area of
Dubai’s Deira.
AMAF secretary ceneral Tayeb
Al Rais said: “Al Arif has a track
record of shaping major construction
projects in the UAE, and has proven
experience in the implementation of
projects that support environment
The facility will also ensure
the recycling of water, use
of environmentally-friendly
building materials, and improved
performance of the air-conditioning
via the integration of high efficiency
technologies.
The mosque will also have the
unusual Dubai feature of a roof
garden for heat insulation.
Israel fingerprints all over
9/11 attacks: US lawmaker
A member of the US House of
Representatives says there is
numerous evidence proving that the
Israeli regime had a major role in the
9/11 attacks.
“We don’t have all the facts and
figures of the direct involvement in
the attack itself, but we do have lots
of fingerprints of the Israelis all over
this situation, covering it up and
also not informing America of this
… disaster,” David Duke said in an
interview with Ahlul Bayt News.
“There’s a huge amount of
evidence that indicates that Israel, at
the very least, knew what was going
on way ahead of time,” but did not
warn the US, Duke added, describing
it as “a tremendous treachery”
against the US.
He said that Israel had a long
record of terrorism against the US,
adding there are a lot of reasons as
to why Israel had a major role in the
incident.
He said that five Israeli Mossad
agents were arrested in New
York while they were filming and
documenting the attack not to
mention that there is also a lot of
evidence indicating that Israel had a
huge spy operation going on in the
United States at this time.
Duke pointed out that Israel
certainly gained tremendous benefits
from the attack so it certainly had a
role in the incident.
“Obviously, they’ve benefitted
tremendously from the attack. It
really cut off the huge growing
criticism of Israel. There are
more and more nations that were
recognizing the Palestinian state.
Everything got short circuited,” he
said.

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Israeli spy drone infringes
upon Lebanon airspace
4:20 p.m. local time (1320 GMT)
while flying over the southern sector
of Lebanon.
Israel violates Lebanon’s airspace
on an almost daily basis, claiming the
flights serve surveillance purposes.
Lebanon’s government, the
Hezbollah resistance movement, and
the UN Interim Force in Lebanon,
known as UNIFIL, have repeatedly
condemned the overflights, saying
they are in clear violation of UN
Resolution 1701 and the country’s
sovereignty.
UN Security Council Resolution
1701, which brokered a ceasefire
An Israeli reconnaissance drone
has crossed into Lebanese airspace
and flown over parts of the country
in blatant violation of a UN Security
Council resolution.
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16 I ADVERTORIAL Passion Islam I October 2012
India’s Oberoi sees
Dubai debut in 2013
Oberoi Dubai is to open in the first
quarter of next year, it was reported.
The Indian company’s longawaited
debut in the UAE will feature
250 rooms and suites, as well as four
food and beverage outlets.
It will be located on Sheikh Zayed
road, and “add value to Dubai as a
destination,” its executive assistant
manager Tapaan Piplani said in
comments published by Hotelier
Middle East.
General manager Karim Bizid
added: “We could have built 300 plus
but we decided to make them bigger
and increase quality... the quality will
be bets in the business, in terms of
size and natural light coming in.”
Piplani said: “We will increase
[tourists coming] from the Indian
market and the luxury market from
that country.
“We are a very strong brand
based there with legendary hotels
there that have been well covered
and talked about.”
Commenting on the number of
new brands entering the country,
Piplani added: “The new competitors
are a nice challenge. The big players
have been here for a while but I
personally believe bringing new
brands like Oberoi will only add value
to Dubai as a destination.”
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“Muslims
Unity” Int’l
Forum in
Kyrgyzstan
Current situation of the Islamic
Ummah was investigated at
the 2nd edition of “Muslims
Unity” International Forum held
in Bishkek, the Republic of
Kyrgyzstan.
National History building of the
capital city hosted the program on
early September
It was attended by Ravil
Ainuddin, chairman of the Council
of Muftis in Russia, Seyyed
Mukarram Abdul Ghader, Grand
Mufti of the Republic of Tajikistan,
Ali Umar Ya’qub Abbasi, imam
of Al-Aqsa Mosque as well as a
number of scholars and religious
intellectuals from Pakistan,
Kazakhstan, Mongolia and
Kyrgyzstan.
The participants investigated
the situation of the Islamic Ummah,
its problems and possible solutions
as well as the approaches can be
taken to strengthen and preserve
unity among Muslims.
The second edition of the
forum was held as suggested by
Rahmatullah Igamberdiev, interim
Mufti of Kyrgyzstan. The first
edition of the international event
was held in 1998.
MP’s endorse UN Recognition of Palestine
A parliamentary motion has been
endorsed by more than 60 Members
of Parliament (MPs) from across
seven political parties in support of
the UN recognition of Palestine.
The motion was signed by
MPs after Palestinian Authority
chief Mahmoud Abbas announced
decision to ask the UN General
Assembly to recognize Palestine as
a non-member state.
Richard Burden MP has tabled
the motion, which is endorsed by 61
MPs so far.
Those MPs endorsing the motion
include former Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw and other former
ministers from both Labour and
Conservative governments.
The motion has received the
support of MPs from seven political
parties: Conservative, Green,
Labour, Liberal Democrat, Plaid
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US puts Haqqanis on terrorists list
or engaging in other transactions
with, the Haqqani Network, and the
freezing of all property and interests
in property of the organization that are
in the United States, or come within
the United States, or the control of
U.S. persons. These actions follow
a series of other steps that the U.S.
government already has taken against
the Haqqanis.
The Department of State
previously designated key Haqqani
Network leaders under E.O. 13224,
and the Department of the Treasury
has designated other militants with
ties to the Haqqanis under the same
authority. We also continue our robust
campaign of diplomatic, military, and
The United States designated the
Haqqani network a foreign terrorist
organisation but said the action will
have no impact on Pakistan.
The State Department also said
that they have “no plan, whatsoever,
to declare Pakistan a state sponsor
of terrorism.”
State Department officials told a
briefing in Washington that Pakistan
had been informed of the intended
move “at least weeks before the
decision was announced, if not
more.”
And the Pakistani government
expressed no reservations or
objection to the US decision, the
officials said.
In a statement issued by her
office, US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton said: “I have sent a report to
Congress saying that the Haqqani
Network meets the statutory criteria
of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (INA) for designation as a
Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
This action meets the requirements
of the Haqqani Network Terrorist
Designation Act of 2012 (P.L. 112-
168). Based on that assessment,
I notified Congress of my intent to
designate the Haqqani Network as
an FTO under the INA. I also intend
to designate the organization as a
Specially Designated Global Terrorist
entity under Executive Order 13224.
The consequences of these
designations include a prohibition
against knowingly providing
material support or resources to,
intelligence pressure on the network,
demonstrating the United States’
resolve to degrade the organization’s
ability to execute violent attacks.
I take this action in the context of
our overall strategy in Afghanistan,
the five lines of effort that President
Obama laid out when he was in
Afghanistan in May: increasing the
capacity of Afghan security forces
to fight insurgents; transitioning
to Afghan security lead; building
an enduring partnership with
Afghanistan; pursuing Afghan-led
reconciliation; and putting together
an international consensus to support
peace and stability in the region.
We will continue to work with both
Afghanistan and Pakistan to move
these efforts forward and build a more
peaceful and secure future.”
EU mulls imposing total ban
on ‘Made in Israel’ goods
The European Union is mulling over
“a total ban” on the goods produced
in the occupied Palestinian lands, a
Greek Foreign Ministry official says.
The diplomat told a group of
Israeli and Palestinian journalists
in the Greek capital, Athens that
“EU nations were currently holding
discussions on the issue” to impose
a ban on all the goods produced in
the occupied territories and labeled
as “Made in Israel.”
According to multiple Israeli
media reports, the Greek diplomat
said that the move would be like
an action South Africa adopted last
month.
Reports say the EU Executive
Commission would likely make a
decision on the issue in later this
month.
Last month, South Africa passed
a law “requiring the labeling of
goods or products emanating from
IOTs (Israel Occupied Territories)
to prevent consumers being led to
believe that such goods come from
Israel.”
“This is in line with South Africa’s
stance that recognizes the 1948
borders delineated by the United
Nations and does not recognize
occupied territories beyond these
borders” as being part of the
Israeli regime, the South African
government said in a statement.
Israeli settlements are considered
illegal by the UN because those
Palestinian territories were captured
by Israel in a war in 1967, and are
hence seen as being subject to the
Geneva Conventions, which forbids
construction on occupied lands.
A number of industries have
sprung up in the illegal Israeli
settlements, with a range of
products, including cosmetics,
beverages and plastics.

18 I WORLD NEWS Passion Islam I October 2012
Islamic scholars propose
new sharia board model
A group of Islamic scholars is
proposing a fresh solution to charges
that banks’ sharia boards are
open to conflicts of interest: create
partnerships between the boards
and Muslim depositors, to insulate
the boards from pressure exerted by
bank managements.
Sharia boards, composed of
experts in Islamic financial law,
supervise Islamic banks’ activities
and products to make sure they
conform to religious principles,
such as bans on interest and pure
monetary speculation.
Traditionally, banks appoint
prestigious scholars to their sharia
boards and some pay them fees and
retainers. This has left the system
vulnerable to charges of conflict
of interest: the scholars are being
paid by the institutions which they
are supposed to be supervising
impartially.
A group of scholars in South
Africa, led by Durban-based Ebrahim
Desai, a senior figure in the city’s
Muslim community, proposes that
Muslim depositors in each bank fund
a sharia compliance body that would
be created separately from the bank.
The body would then hire a sharia
board to supervise the bank. In this
way, the scholars on the board would
not be appointed by or report to the
bank’s management, and would not
have a direct financial relationship
with the bank.
“We seek a neutral and balanced
position,” Desai said by telephone,
adding that freed of subjection to
bank managements, sharia boards
would be able to play more strategic
and powerful roles in governance.
“This would be in line with
the larger interest of the Muslim
community in upholding sharia law by
maintaining the ultra-independence
of the sharia supervisory board.”
Emraan Vawda, a colleague of
Desai, argued that by their nature,
banks were ill-suited to policing their
own Islamic activities. “Commercial
concerns in the overwhelming
majority of Islamic banks far
outweigh genuine commitment to
Islamic values and precepts,” he
said.
The proposal is likely to meet
with considerable scepticism in the
Islamic finance industry. Desai said
many institutions had approached
him to discuss his proposal but he
declined to name them, saying the
talks needed to be kept confidential.
Desai and Vawda said they had
served eight years on the sharia
board of South Africa’s First National
Bank (FNB), the retail arm of South
Africa’s second-biggest bank
FirstRand , where they provided their
services at no cost to FNB.
By avoiding financial
remuneration, the scholars hoped
their decisions would be free of
influence, and they rejected several
offers to be on FNB’s payroll, Desai
said. “We were not dictated by
Doha forum seeks
ways to recover
frozen Arab assets
A forum on recovering frozen
assets of fallen Arab autocrats held
in Qatar called for a mechanism to
deliver the wealth to the new post-
Arab Spring governments.
The Qatari head of the
inaugural meeting of the Forum on
Asset Recovery said that new laws
should be introduced to help in
recovering the assets, just as laws
were created to combat terrorism
funding after the Sept 11 attacks
on the United States.
“There is an international
precedent. It was after Sept 11,
to trace the movement of capital
that could be used in terrorism,”
said Qatar’s public prosecutor Ali
al-Miri.
“Just as the world needed then
new strict and abiding laws, Arab
Spring countries now need an
international mechanism to help
getting back the stolen funds, to
avoid double standards,” he told a
press conference.
Miri accused some host
countries of “living of” those frozen
assets that could potentially
amount to billions of dollars.
Michael Froman, deputy
assistant to the US president and
deputy national security advisor for
international economic affairs said
the task was “very difficult.”
“It is very difficult, it is
complicated. It is a long-term
process,” he warned.
The forum brings together
G8 countries, as well as several
Arab states and Turkey, with
the aim of starting a process of
collaboration on asset recovery for
Arab countries that ousted their
dictators.
money but dictated by principle.”
Desai, Vawda and the rest of
FNB’s sharia board resigned in July,
complaining that the bank had failed
to consult with the board on several
occasions, and hired a new head of
its Islamic finance business without
input from the board.

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Pakistan, India agree to
ease visa restrictions
Pakistan and India have agreed
to ease visa restrictions and work
to improve bilateral relations, the
two countries’ foreign ministers
announced at a press conference in
Islamabad.
The two countries reached the
landmark, the final day of Indian
Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna’s twoday
visit to Pakistan, the Pakistani
media reported.
Krishna’s visit is a part of a peace
process between Pakistan and India
that halted after the Mumbai attack
of November 2008, in which 166
people were killed. India accused
its neighbor of some degree of
involvement in the attacks.
Pakistan has firmly denied
allegations of involvement, asking
India to refrain from blaming
Islamabad and insisting that
perpetrators of the Mumbai terror
attacks were “non-state actors”.
The visa agreement introduced
a number of measures “aimed
at easing travel of business
persons, tourists, pilgrims, elderly
and children, thereby facilitating
contacts between peoples of the two
countries.”
“We will move forward...
We will not be held hostage to
history,” Pakistani Foreign Minister
Hina Rabbani Khar told the joint
news conference with her Indian
counterpart after signing the
agreement.
“We must learn from the past and
not miss any more opportunities.
Pakistan is committed not to
lose any opportunities. Pakistan
is committed to creating new
opportunities,” she added.
During his visit, Krishna held
talks with Pakistan President Asif Ali
Zardari, Prime Minister Raja Pervez
Ashraf, Foreign Minister Khar, and
Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
“A step-by-step approach is what
will take the relationship forward,”
the Indian foreign minister said.
In response to the Pakistani
foreign minister’s statement, Krishna
said, “Let us not look back as you
have rightly said, let us not be held
hostage to whatever has happened
earlier. I think we will have to keep
our sight to the future.”
Indonesian
President
Urges UN to
Issue Rules
on Religious
Defamation
Indonesian President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono has urged
the United Nations (UN) and
the Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) to issue
regulations against religious
defamation in the wake of global
protests ignited by a film insulting
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH),
Xinhua news agency reported.
In a speech before a national
meeting of the Nahdlatul Ulama
in Cirebon, West Java, Susilo
said: “I call on the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation and the UN
to mull over international protocol
to prevent things like this from
happening again,” referring to the
anti-Islam film “The Innocence of
Muslims.”
President Susilo was quoted by
the Jakarta globe as saying that
religious defamation should be
condemned because it hurts the
hearts of religious people, disturbs
peace and could trigger bloody
conflicts.
The controversial film has been
blocked in Indonesia by order of
the Indonesian government.
The film, which was produced
by a self-proclaimed Coptic
Christian American, set off a wave
of anti-US protests across the
Middle East and Indonesia and
reportedly inspired an attack on the
US Embassy in Libya that resulted
in the death of US Ambassador
Christopher Stevens and three
other Americans.

20 I WORLD NEWS Passion Islam I October 2012
Pakistan First lady urges
women to wear hijab
First Lady Nusrat Pervez Ashraf
urged Muslim women to wear hijab,
saying it does not prevent them from
making progress.
While addressing the Jamaate-Islami
(JI) Women and Family
Commission’s (WFC) hijab
conference on Saturday, she said that
modesty was an ornament for women
while hijab was the guardian of this
ornament.
She said that Muslim women
should not hesitate while wearing
a veil. It does not hamper their
performance in daily routine nor does
it come into their way of progress,
Nusrat added. The conference
organised in connection with
International Hijab Day was attended
by a large number of women from
all walks of life. Nusrat said that
Islam ensured protection and respect
People in Turkey have held
demonstrations in the country’s
largest city, Istanbul, to protest
against the ban on Islamic Hijab at
universities and schools.
Chanting slogans in support of
the Islamic Hijab in Fateh Square
in Istanbul, the protesters called for
the freedom to wear Islamic Hijab in
educational centre’s.
for women. She said that women
could show their abilities by keeping
themselves within the limits of Islam.
She paid tribute to the organisers of
the conference and appreciated their
efforts.
At the end of the conference,
a declaration was read out in
which developed countries of the
world were demanded that they
must immediately initiate steps to
withdraw ban on wearing hijab. It
said that Muslim women must not be
denied of their right of freedom. The
participants also protested against
the American sacrilegous movie
and vowed that everything could
be sacrificed for the respect of Holy
Prophet (PBUH).
During the conference, Nusrat
also gave away hijab awards to
Marwa al Sherbini (an Egyptian
woman who was killed in Germany
for wearing hijab), Marwa Qawachi
(former Turkish parliamentarian),
Yvonne Ridley (a British journalist),
Marryam Jamila (a Muslim scholar)
and Aafia Siddiqui. The awards were,
however, received by young girls on
the behalf of the recipients. Nusrat
also distributed honorary shields
amongst prominent women, including
Musarrat Misbah (a beautician),
Khanum Tayyaba Bukhari (scholar),
Sarah Chaudhry (a former actress),
Arooj Nasir (a TV presenter), Dr
Kausar Firdous (former army captain)
and Shehnaz Leghari (a pilot).
WFC President Samia Raheel
Qazi presented honorary shields
to Nusrat, Punjab governor’s wife
Mussarat Latif Khosa and Ghazala
Saad Rafique (wife of PML-N leader
Saad Rafique).
The protesters also demanded
that Turkish governmental
organizations stop refusing to employ
Hijab-wearing women.
Despite claiming to follow Islam,
the Turkish government has not
lifted the ban on the Islamic Hijab in
educational centre’s and offices.
School and university students
wearing Hijab in Turkey are regarded
Jewish
settlers defile
Aqsa Mosque
About 60 Jewish settlers escorted
by armed policemen stormed the
Aqsa Mosque and performed
Talmudic rituals in its courtyard.
According to eyewitnesses, the
number of Jewish settlers started
to increase around the Mosque
as there are Zionist groups calling
on its followers to desecrate the
Aqsa Mosque intensively during
the season of the Jewish holidays
and would continue for a month.
The Israeli occupation forces
have tightened since the morning
hours their restrictions on the
Palestinians visiting the Aqa
Mosque and prevented hundreds
of Palestinian worshipers from
entering the Mosque.
US state gets
‘Love Muslim’
billboard
A new message encouraging
local residents to “Love Your
Muslim Neighbors” is slated on a
South Church Street billboard.
The message is being placed
on a billboard at Church St. by
a self-described Washington,
D.C.-based Christian advocacy
and education organization called
Sojourners.
The organization decided on
Murfreesboro as a location after
several residents living within a
100-mile radius of the city took
notice of the group’s message on
a billboard in Joplin, and began
calling for one to be placed here.
Women protest against Hijab ban in Turkey
as the largest front of the fight
against the Hijab ban in the public
sector and educational places in the
country.
Following the implementation
of the Hijab ban after the coup of
February 28, 1997 in Turkey, many of
the headscarf-wearing women have
faced difficulties in their social lives.
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22 I WORLD NEWS Passion Islam I October 2012
Taliban may agree
to ceasefire: Report
Some senior Taliban members
are ready to accept ceasefire and
even a pro-longed US presence in
Afghanistan as part of a political
agreement, a report says.
The Taliban are determined to
renounce the terrorist al-Qaeda
group and are willing to negotiate
over education for girls, the report
published by the British think-tank
Royal United Services Institute
(RUSI) said.
The Afghan Taliban, however,
are not willing to negotiate with
The German government has barred
American pastor Terry Jones from
entering the country amid rising
protests against an anti-Islam film
made in the United States.
A spokesman for the German
Interior Ministry said on that pastor
Jones’ visit would be contrary to the
“interest in maintaining public order.”
It comes after a German farright,
Pro Deutschland, invited the
extremist pastor to the country in
order to attend a Berlin screening of
the anti-Islam movie produced by an
Israeli-American in the US.
The radical Florida pastor rose to
prominence after he burnt copies of
the Holy Quran in public, sparking
massive demonstrations in several
countries.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s
government because of the
administration’s record of corruption,
it added.
The report, entitled “Taliban
Perspectives on Reconciliation”,
presents interviews with four senior
Taliban representatives about their
approach to peace talks. The Taliban
figures all declared their opposition
to the Afghan constitution because,
they said, it supported the Afghan
president.
A former Taliban minister, one
Germany bans US pastor Jones
amid rising anti-US protests
Meanwhile, pastor Jones
promoted the blasphemous movie
that disrespects Prophet Muhammad
(PBUH) and depicts Islam as an
oppressive religion. He even said
that he decided to show the film
during a prayer service.
German Interior Minister Hans-
Peter Friedrich also said he would
not allow the extremist group to
show the insulting film. Adding,
“Such groups and organizations
only want to provoke Germany’s
Muslims.”
Anti-US demonstrations, which
began on September 11 over the
anti-Islam film, have been held
across the Muslim world, with
protesters storming US embassies
and torching US flags.
ex-Taliban deputy minister and
founding member of the Taliban, one
senior ex-mujahedeen commander
and lead negotiator as well as one
Afghan mediator who had negotiated
with the Taliban were all interviewed
for the report.
The primary view of all the
four interviewees’ was that any
agreement with the Taliban would
require the approval of the group’s
leader Molla Mohammad Omar,
according to the finding.
Yet, Michael Semple, one of
the authors of the report, said the
interviewees’ comments did not
represent the dominant view of the
militant group.
“We are not saying that this is
some kind of poll that says three
out of four Taliban members are in
favour of a ceasefire,” he said. “But
there is a part of the movement who
see there is no prospect of a military
victory and so ceasefire would make
sense. This is not the official line,
but rather the outer fringe of Taliban
thought. It’s not mainstream yet.”
QIB board
approves $1.5b
sukuk programme
Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB)
shareholders have approved a
medium-term $1.5 billion sukuk
programme.
The country’s largest Shariacompliant
lender by market
value is reported to have hired
Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Standard
Chartered and QInvest to manage
an issuance of up to $750m under
the programme. None of the banks
was able to confirm the mandate
to IFR.
Bankers covering the GCC
expect any new issue from QIB to
receive strong bids from Islamic
investors. “I am sure it will fly out
the shelves,” said a London-based
origination banker away from the
transaction.

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CIA document reveals
US errors before Iraq war
deception and only small changes
in outward behavior, analysts did
not spend adequate time examining
the premise that the Iraqis had
undergone a change in their
behavior, and that what Iraq was
saying by the end of 1995 was, for
the most part, accurate,” the report
reads in part.
The key findings of the
declassified document are reportedly
released nearly in full while the body
of the report is filled with blackened
codewords, sources and intelligence
reports that are still kept classified,
seven years after the Iraq Survey
Group reported to the CIA director
on the near total failure of the prewar
assessments.
The American spy agency, CIA has
declassified a document, admitting
to “analytic liabilities” that resulted in
false US intelligence estimates on
Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass
destruction, leading to a major war.
The heavily-redacted 2006
review shows that the case for war
against Iraq rested on a number of
falsehoods, all of which came from
the US intelligence community’s
failures in assessing Iraqi weapons
programs in the lead-up to the Bush
administration’s 2003 invasion.
The document highlights that
such “analytic liabilities” kept US
analysts from seeing the issue
“through an Iraqi prism” and
generated findings that helped justify
the Iraq war.
Prior to the 2003 military
occupation of Iraq, the US
intelligence community had claimed
that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein,
backed by Washington throughout
the 8-year war he waged against
the Islamic Republic of Iran in the
1980’s, was hiding stockpiles of
chemical and biological weapons.
“Given Iraq’s extensive history of
The assessment further states,
“Analysts tended to focus on what
was most important to us -- the
hunt for WMD -- and less on what
would be most important for a
paranoid dictatorship to protect.
Viewed through an Iraqi prism, their
reputation, their security, their overall
technological capabilities, and their
status needed to be preserved.”
The document notes that the
failure on Iraq’s non-existent
weapons of mass destruction
marks a complete fiasco for the US
intelligence community.
US hands over control of Bagram
prison to Afghan government
The United States has officially
handed over control of the
controversial Bagram military prison
to the Afghan government.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai
hailed the move in a ceremony, but
there are still unresolved issues as
the US still wants to have control
over some of the prisoners in the
detention center.
The measure comes six months
after Washington and Kabul signed
a deal in which the US consented to
give control of the Bagram Detention
Center in the northeastern province
of Parwan to Afghan forces.
The transfer of more than 600
detainees, still in custody of the
US forces, is among the unsettled
issues.
The fate of more than 3,000
inmates, including 50 foreigners, has
not been covered by the agreement.
However, many view the transfer
as a symbolic move as the US
says it still retains the right to arrest
Afghans.
In May 2010, the International
Committee of the Red Cross
confirmed reports of the existence of
the detention facility at the Bagram
Airbase.
The United States and its allies
invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part
of Washington’s so-called war on
terror.
The offensive removed the
Taliban from power, but years into
the invasion, insecurity continues to
rise across the country despite the
presence of thousands of foreign
troops in the war-weary nation.

24 I SPORT Passion Islam I October 2012
Abu Dhabi’s Man City
to start Academy project
The building of the Academy,
which will provide a centre for up
to 400 young players as well as
housing the first team training base
and the club’s operations functions,
follows four years of research and
planning by club.
The City Football Academy will
also include on site accommodation
for junior and senior players, 16
football pitches, a state of the art first
team building with changing rooms,
gym, refectory and injury and rehab
centre and a 7,000 capacity stadium
for youth matches.
“Today is an extremely important
day for the future of Manchester City
Football Club,” said the club’s CEO
Ferran Soriano.
“We are now in a position, after
Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester
City announced that work is about
to start on the the club’s new
Football Academy, a key part of the
investment made by Sheikh Mansour
Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
BAM Construction has been
selected as the construction partner,
the club said on its website.
“This is a landmark project for
the Club. City are to build a state of
the art youth development and first
team training facility on an 80 acre
UAE to host Sevens tournament to boost sport in region
The United Arab Emirates plans to
host an inter-Arabian Gulf Rugby
Sevens tournament to boost the
sport regionally, ahead of the
2014 Asian Games and the 2016
Olympics.
The event is also part of a drive
to get Sevens into the West Asian
Games, UAE Rugby Association
chief Ian Bremner said.
Officials have held talks with
rugby’s world governing body, the
International Rugby Board (IRB), and
plan to stage the four-nation event in
November.
“We’ve just applied last week
to the IRB to run a... tournament
site adjacent to the Etihad Stadium,”
it said.
BAM will begin work on the
plot, which forms part of the Etihad
Campus, in the coming weeks and
are due to complete the project in
time for the 2014/15 Premier League
season.
Sheikh Mansour bought the
Manchester club in 2008 and has
invested nearly $1bn to help lead it
to recent glories of the FA Cup and
the Premier League title.
here with Lebanon, Iran, Saudi
Arabia and ourselves,” Bremner told
reporters.
“It’s a West Asian Sevens
competition and this is obviously on
the route towards the Asian Games.
Bremner said the IRB had
encouraged the UAE to invigorate
the sport within the region. “This is
our first step in terms of hosting that
tournament,” he said.
“We’d be very happy for any of
the other teams attending to host
another leg of that next year.”
The UAE’s rugby chiefs are
looking to increase the number of
nationals playing the game with a
four years of research and planning,
to execute that strategy and we are
delighted to join with BAM who will
play a large part in helping us to do
so.”
BAM chief executive Graham
Cash added: “We are delighted to
be part of the team that will deliver
the City Football Academy and we
will work hard to play our part in
delivering MCFC’s vision of both
developing the players of the future
and helping to regenerate the
community of East Manchester.”
view to future involvement in the
Asian and Olympic Games.
The sport will feature in the 2014
Asian Games in Incheon, South
Korea and also for the first time at an
Olympics in Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Passion Islam I October 2012 SPORT I 25
Muslim Businessman takes
over at Bradford Bulls
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Missed It
The RFL Board of Directors has
agreed to grant membership of the
RFL to Bradford Bulls under the
club’s new owners, Omar Khan and
Gerry Sutcliffe MP.
Membership was suspended
earlier this year when the club went
into administration.
The club were accepted as
members of the RFL after Mr
Khan and Mr Sutcliffe provided all
the information required for the
governing body to complete its due
diligence into their financial status.
RFL Director of Standards and
Licensing Blake Solly said: “The
Board’s decision finally closes the
door on much of the uncertainty that
has surrounded Bradford Bulls in
recent months.
“The club’s new owners have
Middle East investors have lodged a dramatic $20m bid
to take over troubled football club Portsmouth.
Details of the offer were sent to the club’s
administrators which also show that a consortium
of investors deposited funds totaling AED75.058m
($20.4m) into an escrow account held by Dubai Bank on
August 30.
The formal offer to take over the club includes a
deal to buy the assets of the club, including the freehold
property and players contracts. Full details of payments
to creditors are also made in the offer, as well as the
repayment of £8.8m over a four year period to former
players.
The offer letter also says “our client is willing to
welcome the Portsmouth Supporters Trust to invest and
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26 I SPECIAL FEATURE Passion Islam I October 2012
Life of Umar
Bin Al-Khattab
“Almighty has placed truth upon
Umar’s tongue and heart...” (Abu
Dawud, 19-2955)
Umar ibn al-Khattab ibn Nufayl ibn
Abdul Uzza ibn Riyah ibn Qart ibn
Razah ibn Adi ibn Kab ibn Lu’ayy,
Amirul-mumineen,Abu Hafs, al-
Quraishi, al-Adawi, al-Faruq.
Umar’s Life
During his last illness Abu Bakr had
conferred with his people, particularly
the more eminent among them. After
this meeting they chose Umar as
his successor. Umar was born into
a respected Quraish family thirteen
years after the birth ofMuhammad
. Umar’s family was known for its
extensive knowledge of genealogy.
When he grew up, Umar was
proficient in this branch of knowledge
as well as in swordsmanship,
wrestling and the art of speaking.
He also learned to read and write
while still a child, a very rare thing
in Mecca at that time. Umar earned
his living as a merchant. His trade
took him to many foreign lands and
he met all kinds of people. This
experience gave him an insight into
the affairs and problems of men.
Umar’s personality was dynamic,
self-assertive, frank and straight
forward. He always spoke whatever
was in his mind even if it displeased
others.
His Acceptance Of Islam
Umar was twenty-seven when the
Prophet proclaimed his mission. The
ideas Muhammad was preaching
enraged him as much as they did
the other notables of Mecca. Ibn
Umar narrated that: The Prophet
said, “O Allah , strengthen Islam with
whoever is more beloved to You of
these two men: Umar ibn al-Khattab
or Abu Jahl ibn Hisham.”
He was just as bitter against anyone
accepting Islam as others among
the Quraish. When his slave-girl
accepted Islam he beat her until
he himself was exhausted and told
her, “I have stopped because I am
tired, not out of pity for you.” The
story of his embracing Islam is an
interesting one. Full of anger against
the Prophet , he drew his sword and
set out to kill him. A friend met him
on the way. When Umar told him
what he planned to do, his friend
informed him that Umar’s own sister
Fatima , and her husband had also
accepted Islam. Umar went straight
to his sister’s house where he heard
murmured voices. Umar asked “Why
are you talking in murmured voices?”
They had been reading Surah Taha
but replied that they were merely
engaged in conversation. Umar then
said “I suspect that you two have
converted”. To this, his brother-inlaw
replied “Umar what if the truth is
outside your religion?” He fell upon
his brother-in-law and started beating
him severely. When his sister tried
to defend her husband, he struck a
blow to her and beat her mercilessly.
Bruised and bleeding, she told her
brother, “Umar , you can do what
you like, but you cannot turn our
hearts away from Islam.” These
words produced a strange effect
upon Umar .What was this faith that
made even weak women so strong
of heart? He asked his sister to show
him what she had been reading; he
was at once moved to the core by the
words of the Qur’an and immediately
grasped their truth.
He went straight to the house
where the Prophet was staying and
vowed allegiance to him.Umar made
no secret of his acceptance of Islam.
He gathered the Muslims and offered
prayers at the Ka’aba. This boldness
and devotion of an influential citizen
of Mecca raised the morale of the
small community of Muslims.
His Emigration
Nonetheless Umar was also
subjected to privations, and when
permission for emigration to Medina
came, he also left Mecca.Ali says, “I
have not known of anybody who did
not emigrate in secret besidesUmar
.” At the time of emigration, he
strapped on his sword, put his bow
over his shoulders and came to
the courtyard of the Kabah where
the chiefs of the Quraysh were. He
performed seven Tawaaf around
the Kabah and prayed two Rak’aats
behind the Maqam-e-Ibrahim. He
then addressed each of the Quraysh
leaders turn by turn and said,
“Whoever wishes that his children
are left orphaned can follow me out
of this valley.” Dumbstruck, none of
the Quraysh leader’s followed.
The Views Of Umar with
Confirmatory Revelations Of The
Qur’aan
Mujahid said that when Umar used
to hold a view an Ayat of the Quraan
would be revealed confirming his
view.
Some say that these views
amounted to more than twenty.
Umar said, “I agreed with my
Lord in three things. I asked The
Prophet of Allah , if only we were
to take the Maqam-e-Ibrahim as a
place of prayer and the Ayat was
revealed… “and take the Maqam-e-
Ibrahim as a place of prayer.”
I asked the Prophet of Allah both
good and bad strange men come
and visit your wives if only you could

Passion Islam I October 2012 SPECIAL FEATURE I 27
tell them to cover their faces and the
Ayat of Purdah was revealed.
The wives of Rasulullah were
united in jealousy and I said to the
wives that perhaps if Rasulullah
divorces you he will get wives better
than you. The Ayat in these exact
words were revealed.”
His Miracles
Once Umar was delivering the
Khutbah on the day of Jummah
and suddenly he turned around and
shouted, ‘Sariyah the mountain! He
who asks the wolf to be the shepherd
will be destroyed.’ People started
looking at one another in confusion
as to what caused Umar to shout
these words. Umar then explained
that it occurred to me that the
idolaters were going to defeat our
fellow brothers that have gone out in
battle. Our brothers were passing by
the mountain and if they had passed
by, they would have been destroyed
but if they looked in front of the
mountain, they would have been able
to fight against the idolaters. A month
later when the Muslims returned from
the battle, they mentioned that when
they had passed by the mountain
they heard the voice of Umar and
when they turned towards the
mountain, Allah gave them victory.
It is said that the mountain was in
Persian Iraq. It was Umar’s miracle
that his voice was heard at such a
distance.
Ibn Umar narrates that onceUmar
asked a man his name. The man
replied ‘Jamrah (a live coal)’. Umar
then asked the name of his father.
The man replied ‘Shihab(flame)’.
Umar asked regarding the tribe that
Jamrah was from. Jamrah replied
‘al-Hurqah (a state of burning).
Umar then asked with regards to
his dwelling. He replied ‘al-Harrah
(the vocaninc tract)’. Umar asked ‘in
which one of them?’ He said ‘Dhat
Ladha (the blazing one)’. Umar said
go to your family for they have been
burnt. Surely when the man returned
to his family, they were all burnt.
When Egypt was conquered, its
people came to Amr ibn al-Aas when
it was the first day of a month, and
they said to him, ‘We have a custom,
and this River Nile will not flow until
11 nights of this month have elapsed.
We will then seek a young virgin girl
and with the consent of her parents
we will adorn her and then throw
her into the Nile. With this ritual, the
Nile will begin to flow.’ To this Amribn
al-Aas replied that there is no
such ritual in Islam. Islam wipes out
all the customs that came before it.
The Egyptians left and the Nile did
not flow at all.Amr wrote a letter to
Umar-ibn-al Khattab expressing
his concern about the matter. Umar
wrote back to him saying, ‘You were
right in what you said. Truly Islam
demolishes what precedes it.’ He
also sent an additional slip of paper
and wrote, ‘I have sent an additional
piece of paper which you are to
throw in the Nile.’ When Amr opened
the paper, he found written on the
paper:
‘From the slave of Allah, Umar
ibn al-Khattab Amir al –Mumineen to
the Nile of Egypt. Now if you used to
flow before, then do not flow! If it was
Allah that made you flow, then I ask
the Overwhelming One to make you
flow.’ Amr threw the slip into the Nile
a day before the ritual was to take
place. They woke up in the morning,
and Allah made it flow and it rose
sixteen cubits in one night. Allah cut
off this custom of the people of Egypt
in one day.
His Description
Ibn Umar describes Umar of being a
man of fair complexion but extremely
ruddy, tall and stout, balding and
grey-haired.
Salamah ibn Akwa said: ‘Umar
was both left and right handed,
meaning that he used to use both his
hands together.
From various sources it is known
that Umar’s mother was Hantamah
who was the sister of Abu Jahl ibn
Hisham.
His Khilafah
The soundness of Umar’s judgment,
his devotion to the Prophet , his
outspokenness and uprightness
won for him a trust and confidence
from the Prophet which was second
only to that given to Abu Bakr. The
Prophet gave him the title ‘Farooq’
which means the ‘Separator of
Truth from False hood.’ During the
Caliphate of Abu Bakr , Umar was
his closest assistant and adviser.
When Abu Bakr passed away, all the
people of Medina swore allegiance to
Umar , and on 23 Jamadi-al-Akhir,
13 A.H., he was proclaimed Caliph.
In the year 14 AH Damascus,
Homms (ancient Emessa), Baalbek,
Basra and Ubullah was opened to
Islam. In this very same year, Umar
united people in reading Salat-ut-
Tarawih (prayers for Ramadhaan) in
congregation.
In the year 15 AH, Jordan was
opened to Islam. In this year there
were the battles of Yarmuk and
Qadisiyyah of which Ibn Jarir said:
‘Umar paid regular wages for the
fighting men and gave allowances
according to priority,’
In the year 16 AH, Ahwaz and
Mada’in were opened to Islam and
Jumma Salaat was established in
Mada’in and this was the first Jumma
Salaat to be held in Iraq.
In the year 17 AH Umar
increased the size of the Prophet’s
mosque. There was also drought
and famine in this year and this was
known as the year of destruction.
Umar prayed for the rain in order
to be relieved from the drought by
means of Al-Abbas . Umar took the
hand of Al-Abbas, raised it and said:
Oh Allah , we are in front of you by
means of the Prophet’s uncle. Drive
the drought away from us and give
us to drink from Your rain. The prayer
was accepted and they did not leave
until they were given to drink. It
rained heavily for days.
In the year 18 AH, Jundaysbur,
Hulwan, Sumaysat, Harran, Nasibin,
a part of Mesopotamia and Mosul
were opened to Islam.
In the year 19 AH, Caesaera was
opened to Islam.
In the year 20 AH, Egypt, Northwestern
Africa and Tustar were
opened to Islam. In the very same
year,Umar expelled the Jews from
Khaybar and Najran.
In the year 21 AH, Nahawand and
Barqah were opened to Islam.
In the year 22 AH, Azerbaijan,
Dinawr, Masabdhan, Hamadan,
Tripoli of North Africa, Rai, Askar and
Qumas were opened to Islam.
In the year 23 AH, Kirman,
Sijistan, Makran and Isfahan were
opened to Islam.
At the end of this year was the
death of Sayyidina Umar ibn al-
Khattab .
Ibn al-Musayyab said: ‘When
Umar returned from Mina to Makkah,
he made his camel kneel down, he
sat on the ground and raised his
hands towards the sky and said: ‘Oh
Allah! I have advanced in my years;
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Life of Umar Bin Al-Khattab - Continued from page 27
I have gone weak so take me to You
without me being wasteful.’ Dhul
Hijjah had not even ended and Umar
was martyred.
His Martydom
It was on the 27th Dhul Hijjah 26
A.H. that the great Amir Ul Mumineen
Umar Ibn Al- Khattab was martyred.
The enemies of Islam would not
leave a man like `Umar to carry on
his wonderful achievements in the
service of Islam and the Muslims.
And the venomous Rancours that
were still existent in the hearts of the
Persian and Byzantine slaves would
never make them forget that it was
`Umar who had caused them to lead
that life of servility.
`Umar was one day walking in
Madinah when a Persian youth,
named “Fairouz” and surnamed
“`Abu-Lu’lu’ah”, met him. That youth
was a slave under “Al-Mugheerahibn-Shu’bah”,
and had been taken
captive after the conquest of
Nahawand. To the Commander of the
Faithful, he complained of his master
saying that he had imposed upon him
four dirhams to be paid every day.
`Umar asked him about his job, and
the answer was that he worked as a
carpenter, a blacksmith and a house
painter. Then `Umar remarked that
the tax his master had imposed upon
him was quite fair, but the youth was
not happy with that remark, and went
away full of indignation. This story is
nothing more than a spurious pretext
which might have been plotted to kill
the Commander of the Faithful.
Umar met that youth again while
he was in the company of some
friends of his. He called him and said:
“I have been informed that you claim
to be able to make a mill that grinds
by the power of the wind.” The youth
asserted that he was. So Umar said
to him: “Then make us one,” to which
the youth answered: “I will certainly
make you a mill that will be the chitchat
of all the people in the cities.”
When the youth went away, Umar
said to those with him: “The slave
has threatened me already.”
Umar could not do anything
against that abominable Magian
because, according to the Islamic
law, a man can never be convicted on
the basis of suspicion or uncertainty.
So one day, one of the blackest days
in the history of mankind, at dawn in
the mosque, when Umar started to
lead the Muslims in prayer saying:
“(Allahu Akbar)”, Abu-Lu’lu’ah, came
unnoticed out of his hiding place in
a dark corner of the mosque, as a
poisonous serpent coming out of its
dark pit. He went straight towards
Umar , and, with a dagger in his
hand, aimed three deadly stabs
in the back, at which the Amir-ul-
Mumineen fell down on the ground
with a heavy effusion of blood. Above
all things, what concerned him was
the continuation of the prayer. He
took the hand of `Abdur-Rahman
ibn ‘Awf and sent him ahead to lead
the prayer. Then he said: “Catch that
dog; he has killed me,” as though he
knew it was that Magian dog who had
committed the hideous crime.
Umar was afterwards carried to
his home. He was out of his senses.
One of the people around said:
“Wake him up so that he may say his
prayer.” The call to prayer brought
him back to his senses; he said: “Oh
yes! The prayer! No fortune in Islam
for him who abandons his prayer!’’
Then he demanded to be helped to
perform ablution, after which he said
his prayer. When he was assured
that his murderer was Abu-Lu’lu’ah,
he said: “Praise be to Allah Who
has not ordained my murder to be
committed by a man who can argue
with me before Allah on the plea that
he has once prostrated to Him.”
When the last hour approached,
and there was no single hope of
recovery, Umar commanded his son
`Abdullah to go to Aa’ishah , the
Mother of the Believers, and ask her
permission to have him buried beside
his favourite brothers: the Prophet ,
and Abu-Bakr . She gave him that
permission.
It has been related that the
Prophet , one day seeing `Umar
with a shirt on, asked him: “Is your
shirt a new one or has it been
previously worn?” When `Umar
said, “It has been previously worn,
O Messenger of Allah,” the Prophet
said, “Wear the new, live benignly
and die a martyr. And may Allah offer
you happiness in this world and in the
Hereafter.”
And `Umar died a martyr reciting
these words from the Glorious
Qur’an:
“And the Command of Allah is a
decree determined.” [ Chapter “Al-
Ahzab”, verse 38.]
Someone asked him to make a
bequest and appoint a successor.
In reply to this he said, “I see noone
with more right to appoint a
successor than the six men who the
Messenger of Allah has mentioned.
I bequest the successor after me to
be obedient to Allah, pay particular
care to the Muhajirun and the Ansar
and treat the people of the provinces
well.”
Abdullah ibn Umar says: “When
my father passed away we went
walking with him to the house of
Aishah and called out the greeting
and said Umar seeks permission to
enter. Aishah replied ‘bring him in’.
He was brought in and buried next to
his two companions.”
After the burial, that group of six
gathered in order to delegate the
authority of a successor. Az-Zubayr
said: ‘I delegate the authority to Ali .
Sa’ad said: ‘I delegate the authority
to Abd-ar-Rahman.’ Talhah said ‘I
delegate the authority to Uthmaan.’
Abd-ar-Rahman said ‘I do not want
this authority, which of you two will
quit this matter and we will delegate
this authority to the remaining one?
Both Ali and Uthmaan were silent.
Abd-ar-Rahman said delegate me
to choose and I will choose what’s
best for you. Both Ali and Uthmaan
agreed and he pledged allegiance to
Uthmaan .
Umar was struck on Wednesday,
four days before the end of Dhul
Hijjah, he was buried on Sunday, the
day of the new moon of Muharram.
He was sixty-three years old and
Suhayb performed the funeral prayer
over him.
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PAY NOTHING ‘TIL 2013
CARPETS
www.al-muradcarpets.com
*
JAGUAR
TWIST PILE
£4 .99
Per Sq Metre
STAIN
FREE!
£6 .99
Per Sq Metre
FROM
JUST
LESS THAN
HALF
PRICE
EXAGE HARD
WEARING BERBER
£4 £ .99
Per Sq Metre
Wood Laminate Flooring
£9 .99
FROM
JUST
Per Sq Metre
LESS THAN
HALF
PRICE
MOORLANDS
TWIST PILE
£4 .99
Per Sq Metre
STAIN
FREE!
LESS THAN
HALF
PRICE
LUXURY
‘FAMOUS NAME’
VINYL FLOORING
BOLTON ABBEY
BERBER
£4 .99
Per Sq Metre
LESS THAN
HALF
PRICE
STAIN
FREE!
MASSIVE
CHOICE!
HALF PRICE... T: 0
AXION
MICRO-GROOVE 4V
Per Sq Metre £99 .99
£9 .99
USUALLY £45/SQ M
LUXURIOUS
DIVAN BEDS
FROM...
HECKMONDWIKE
WALKLEY LANE WF16 0NB
(OPPOSITE HECKMONDWIKE LIBRARY,
500 METRES FROM TOWN CENTRE)
T: 01924 411315
BRADFORD
UNIT 1, BUSFIELD ST,
OFF WAKEFIELD RD BD4 7QX
(NEAR SCREWFIX, OPPOSITE TOPPS)
T: 0113 244 9206
MORLEY
HOWLEY PARK ROAD EAST,
MORLEY LS27 0BN
(NEAR ASDA, & MERMAID FISH RESTAURANT)
T: 0113 253 9291
LEEDS
SPENCE RETAIL PARK,
SPENCE LANE, LEEDS LS12 1EF
(NEXT TO DUNELM MILL OLD READMANS BUILDING)
T: 0113 244 9206
*Representative example: cash price £350, 0% APR & No deposit. Nothing to pay for the first year, then 24 equal monthly payments of £14.58 (equivalent to £3.37per week). Terms & Conditions apply. Contact store for details.
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MORLEY HOWLEY PARK RD EAST,
(NR ASDA & MERMAID FISH RESTAURANT)
TILES ONLY
HECKMONDWIKE
SPEN VALLEY ST WF16 0PS
(NR PONDEROSA)
T: 0113 253 7766 T: 01924 411113
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HUDDERSFIELD
400 LEEDS RD, HD2 1YW
(OPPOSITE MCDONALDS)
T: 01484 535210
TILES & DECORATING
LEEDS
TORRE ROAD, LS9 7HE
(NR ST. JAMES’S)
T: 0113 249 8055
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YORK
GEORGE CAYLEY DRIVE,
CLIFTON MOOR
T: 01904 476333
70 STORES NATIONWIDE