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Options for an Israeli attack on IranBy Geoffrey Cook, TMO

Pismo Beach--As we traverse the October before the American polls, the following information seems to have come from a report probably purposely leaked by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to Foreign Policy (FP)

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By Dr. AS Nakadar, TMOMuslims votes were decisive

in many states in the 2008 presi-dential election, especially in the so called “swing states.” Analyz-ing state by state election results, it doesn’t take much effort to fig-ure out that all states are crucial and can indeed be considered as “swing states.” Sometimes the vote difference in certain states is fewer than 5,000 votes, enough to swing the result decisively. In this election the Muslim vote is going to be as decisive as ever.

Here is a brief review of both presidential candidates and their stands on important issues.

On Human Rights and Foreign Policy issues:

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A Visit to Syria’s RefugeesBy Ilyas Choudry, TMO

Mr. Ilyas Choudry, our regional editor from Houston, seen in the middle with the cap, with the Syrian refugee family.

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The first ever Muslim minis-ter in the Norwegian Cabinet is Hadia Tajik of Pakistani origin, who was handed the culture port-folio.Ahram Online

On Sunday, with no prec-edent in Norwegian history, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg appointed Hadia Tajik, a 29-year-old Muslim woman, as minister of culture, making Tajik the young-est minister in the Norwegian Cabinet and the first ever Muslim in the Norwegian government.

Tajik, of Pakistani origin, an-nounced that her programme will focus on cultural diversity as part of the Norwegian people’s daily lives and how this reflects on Norwegian society as a whole.

The programme will delve

into the protection of minority rights, whether cultural or racial, including the right of Muslims to wear the veil in public places, among other issues.

The new focus, however, will not be unopposed.

Most right wing groups are against these policy changes, con-sidering the increase in diversity in society a challenge to Euro-pean culture.

Last year Anders Breivik randomly shot 69 people at a summer camp organized by the Workers’ Youth League (AUF) of the Labor Party after blowing up a Norwegian state building.

During his trial, Breivik rea-soned that multi-cultural policies are harming Norway, adding that he considers Islam his enemy.

Born in Strand, Norway, on 18 July 1983, Tajik studied hu-man rights at the University of Kingston in the UK and holds a Bachelor’s degree in journal-ism and Master’s in law, the lat-ter awarded by the University of Oslo this year.

An activist from a young age, Tajik led the Young Work-ers Movement between 1999 and 2002.

She also worked as a politi-cal advisor to Norway’s minister of justice, 2008-2009.

self sufficiency. Of all the fami-lies in Gaza the Samouni family suffered the most during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead. One of the girls in the Samouni family has been treated by the PCRF in the past and was also seen by them this September during a medical mission to Gaza.

He described life in Gaza and the turmoil it brings especially to the children. To them losing a be-loved family member, a limb, and living with the constant sound of helicopters overhead is an in-tegral part of their lives. It is a nightmare that they do not wake up from.That is something we, who do not live under occupation, cannot comprehend.

After his presentation a mem-ber of the audience spontaneously ran up to the podium, embraced Mr. O’Keefe and thanked him for his work and his inspiration.

Mr. O’Keefe said that the fu-ture of world peace hinges on the Palestine conflict.

Doc Jazz and his Musical Intifada provided a highly enter-taining program. His appearance at the gala marked the first time he had crossed the Atlantic to per-form. He has written a new song titled “Healing Hands” to coin-cide with the event. The proceeds from its down loads will be given

to the PCRF. Also coinciding with his appearance in Anaheim is the release of a CD titled “In-tifada” which will be available on Amazon.

His songs ranged from tradi-tional Arab music to contempo-rary jazz.

Doc Jazz is a Palestinian sur-geon.

Steve Sosebee, the founder of he PCRF and its current CEO, gave an overview of the organi-zation. Later in the evening, the Huda Sosebee Healing Spirit Award was awarded to PCRF Chairman of the Board, Dr. Musa Nasir, and to Los Angeles-Orange County PCRF Chapter President, Lily Karam

Huda Al Masri Sosebee, the late wife of Steve Sosebee, was truly the heart of the PCRF. She was a social worker and totally dedicated to the cause of Pales-tine. The award is named in her honor.The newly opened Pediat-ric Oncology Department at Al Husseini Hospital in Beit Jala, the only facility of its kind in Pales-tine and a PCRF project, is also named in her honor.

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lief Fund (PCRF) held a highly successful banquet/fundraiser this past Saturday night at the Anaheim Hilton Hotel in Ana-heim, Ca.

The event titled “Healing Hands” drew a capacity audience and featured speakers, music, and awards in addition to the fund-raising.

Veteran human rights activ-ist, Ken O’Keefe was the keynote speaker. Mr. O’Keefe currently resides in Gaza with his wife and two children. He was on board the Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israel in 2010 while it was part of an aid flotilla to Gaza. He helped disarm Israeli sailors and also helped to treat the wounded. He is engaged in nu-merous projects in Gaza to raise the standard of living of its resi-dents suffering under the boot of the Israeli presence.

Mr. O’Keef broke a 30 day hunger fast the evening of the event. He had undertaken the fast to protest and show solidarity with Palestinian political prison-ers.

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While irrational fear is un-called for, the autumn season can call us all as a nation to ra-tional fear, even if we don’t cel-ebrate Halloween. Thanksgiving, the day of feasting, comes about three weeks after Halloween. Af-ter that will come Christmas, the day of gift-giving. All of these oc-casions are great days for charity, for helping out those who are cold or lonely.

But don’t forget! Eid ul-Adha is supposed to fall on October 26

By Adil Daudi, Esq.Having a will, or any estate planning document,

is deemed one of the most important, and underrat-ed, financial planning documents. However, as I’ve mentioned on several occasions, a shockingly high number of people still don’t have one.

Many reasons have been established as to why people fail to plan, or fail to even want to plan; a couple of them being: (a) it is difficult to discuss death, and (b) paying for something now and not feeling the benefit of it just doesn’t seem right. Therefore, it is now becoming more and more com-mon for people to look for cheaper options when conducting their estate plan – online.

Now, I am not saying this because I’m an es-tate planning attorney, but doing Do-It-Yourself (“DIY”) wills could be one of the absolute worse things you can do for yourself. Only under the most extreme circumstances would I ever recom-mend one to obtain a will online. Why? Because there are numerous factors that go into the valida-tion of a will that is never considered. Moreover,

there are certain required elements needed in order for the will to even be valid; for example: the word-ing of the document, formalities on how it should be signed, the witnesses, who the witnesses can/cannot be, forgetting to include guardian/conservators, etc.

Here is an example of a Chief Justice, Warren Burger, who although a lawyer himself, but not an estate planning expert, attempted to do his own DIY will, and ended up costing his estate hundreds of thousands of dollars:

“Story: Chief Justice Warren Burger died in 1995 with a $1.8 million estate and a will of 176 words he typed up himself. There’s something to be said for brevity, but in this case, his family paid $450,000 in estate taxes, something that could have been easily avoided. And his executors had to pay to go to court to get approval to complete adminis-trative acts, such as selling real estate, that typically a well-drafted will would have allowed without court approval.

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Halloween Descends Upon America

By Karin Friedemann, TMO

An Irish Blessing for Halloween

At all Hallow’s Tide, may God keep you safe

From goblin and pooka and black-hearted stranger,

From harm of the water and hurt of the fire,

From thorns of the bramble, from all other danger,

From Will o’ the Wisp haunting the mire;

From stumbles and tumbles and tricksters to vex you,

May God in His Mercy, this week protect you.

By Maureen McCabeAs the nights become chilly,

the leaves turn crunchy. The au-tumn equinox has passed us by, with or without a bonfire. We feel a shiver in our bones. It is only natural to think about life and death at this sacred time when all the flowers have turned into shriveled compost and the fruit is being collected. What we har-vest this year will be what we rely upon this coming winter. That is a terrifying knowledge. No mat-ter what your line of work, life changes with the falling tempera-tures.

Is your car ready for winter? Do you have a snow shovel? Do you have a scraper for your wind-shield? Is your heater working properly? Do you need to weath-erize your apartment? Do all your children have mittens and coats and boots? And to top it all off, have you planned out the appro-priate family-friendly activities such as ice skating and sledding into your already overbooked schedule?

If you think your life is stressful now, imagine what your life might have looked like before electricity. You would be feeling a genuine fear right now, that you or some member of your family might not see spring next year. The shorter days of less sunlight didn’t just mean emotional de-pression, back not so long ago. You might actually die of hunger or cold as a working person living in America. The genuine human fear of the fall season dates back thousands of years and is vali-dated in the Halloween tradition, a largely Pagan/Catholic festival that is celebrated in many coun-tries.

The ancient Irish tradition of carving a jack o’ lantern was intended to ward off evil spirits and ghosts as they traveled to the next world on All Saints’ Day, November 1. The mask face and costumes were supposed to trick soul-grabbers into bypassing those whom we love, who would otherwise die this winter.

Many different countries and cultures have traditions of making lanterns and encourag-ing children to parade through the


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Envoy Seeks CeasefireU.N.-Arab League mediator

Lakhdar Brahimi has called on Shi’ite Muslim Iran, Assad’s clos-est regional ally, to help arrange a ceasefire in Syria during the Is-lamic holiday of Eid al-Adha later this month.

Diplomatic sources said Bra-himi is also trying to persuade Assad and the rebels to accept a ceasefire and allow U.N. monitors into the country to oversee it.

Brahimi, who took over af-ter Kofi Annan quit in frustration in August, has been travelling around the Middle East trying to nudge regional powers into ac-cepting his plan, which resembles a ceasefire Annan tried in vain to implement, U.N. diplomats said.

But diplomatic sources fa-miliar with Brahimi’s proposals said that neither Assad’s govern-ment nor the fractious opposition had shown interest in halting the conflict.

Major powers at the United Nations remain deadlocked over what to do to defuse Syria’s con-flict.

Russia, which has been Assad’s primary arms supplier, and China have vetoed three resolutions favored by Western powers condemning Syrian au-thorities and opening the way to imposing United Nations sanc-tions on Damascus.

The French daily Le Figaro said Foreign Minister Laurent

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria’s divided rebels have agreed to set up a joint leadership to oversee their battle to overthrow Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad, two insur-gent sources said on Tuesday as fighting raged in cities across the country.

Rebels hope the decision, taken after increasing pressure from foreign supporters on them to unite, will help convince those backers that they are a credible and coordinated fighting force de-serving to be supplied with more powerful weapons.

“The agreement has been reached, they only need to sign it now,” one rebel source said. For-eign supporters “are telling us: ‘Sort yourselves out and unite, we need a clear and credible side to provide it with quality weap-ons’.”

He said Qatar and Turkey were the main drivers behind the agreement, which might be for-mally announced this month.

It is the latest attempt to bring together Assad’s disparate armed opponents, most of whom have fought nominally under the ban-ner of the rebel Free Syrian Army but who in practice have operated independently, often weakened by deep rivalries.

The new leadership will in-clude FSA leaders Riad al-Asaad and Mustafa Sheikh - criticized by many rebels because they are based in Turkey - and recently defected General Mohammad Haj Ali, as well as heads of rebel pro-vincial military councils inside Syria like Qassem Saadeddine,

based in Homs province.The Syrian National Council

has set November 4 as the date for an opposition unity conference in Qatar, organizers said.

The 19-month-old revolt against Assad, which started as peaceful demonstrations, has mushroomed into a civil war with sectarian dimensions, pitting the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against a power structure domi-nated by the Alawite minority.

Activists say more than 30,000 people have been killed, hundreds of thousands have fled to neighboring countries and more than a million have been displaced inside Syria as entire city districts have been rendered ghost towns by heavy shelling.

The British Observatory for Human Rights said 80 people had been killed in Syria by dusk on Tuesday, after 160 died on Monday. Heavy clashes broke out in the city of Hama, and fight-ing continued in Aleppo and the northern province of Idlib.

A Reuters correspondent on Lebanon’s northeastern bor-der with Syria saw a helicopter dropping explosives on the Syr-ian side of the frontier. Refugees unloading blankets from a pickup truck in an olive grove on the Lebanese side stopped to watch big black plumes of smoke rising into the sky.

Underlining increasing in-ternational concern about the conflict, Pope Benedict will send a group of top cardinals to visit Syria in coming days to express solidarity with its battered popu-

Divided Syrian Rebels Agree on LeadershipBy Mariam Karouny

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Malala Yousufzai the Brave Girl of Pakistan

By Syed Aslam, TMO

Malala Yousafzai was born in the year 1997 in the town of Mingora in Swat District. At the age of 11, she came to promi-nence through a blog she wrote for the BBC detailing her life under the Taliban regime. After final battle of Swat Malala began to rise in prominence, giving in-terviews in print and electronic media. New York Times docu-mentary was filmed about her life in 2010. In October 2011 Des-mond Tutu of South Africa an-nounced Malala’s nomination for the International Children’s Peace Prize and she became a celebrity in Pakistan. Her public profile rose even further when she was awarded Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize in December of same year.

As Malala became famous, the dangers facing her became more acute. Death threats were published on paper and sent to her house. The threat did not slow her down and she vowed never to stop working for the cause

of girl’s education. Young girls sometimes have trouble sleeping through the night, kept awake by monsters they can’t see, but Malala Yousufzai knew exactly what her monsters looked like – a man with long beards wearing dull-colored robes – the Taliban. She rarely showed fear on her face and she didn’t hide her face either, she is a brave girl. The 2011 interview with CNN she said.

“I have the right of educa-tion,” “I have the right to play. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up. A reporter asked her”Why do you risk your life to raise your voice? She answered that her people need her.”I shall raise my voice,” she insisted.”If I didn’t do it, who would?” Girls who are scared should fight their fear, she said.”Don’t just sit in your bedrooms and think that somebody will do the job for you.

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lims was significant: Conserva-tive estimates put the number at 10 percent of all slaves, with some estimates running as high as 30 percent. A hodgepodge of sources –from plantation records to runaway slave advertisements to WPA interviews – show that Muslims went to great lengths to observe their religion; that

Islam was a marker of status in the larger African American so-ciety; and that African American culture reflects the influence of early Muslims. On Sapelo Island, Georgia, for example, the congre-gation of the First African Baptist Church always prays to the east, the direction in which the church

Influenced by the tolerance of the Enlightenment, America’s founders considered Islam’s place in the new republic despite wide-spread fear of Barbary pirates and a sense of European rivalry with the Ottoman Empire. As befitting a student of law in a religiously diverse land, Thomas Jefferson purchased a Quran to learn about the Islamic legal code – the same Quran that was used in the swear-ing inof Muslim Keith Ellison to the U.S. Congress. In 1776, John Adams published “Thoughts on Government,” which praised the prophet Muhammad as a “sober inquirer after truth.” Ben Frank-lin set up a non-sectarian meeting house in Philadelphia, declaring in his autobiography that “even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service.”

Tea Partiers occasionally know and distort these facts, but they are completely ignorant about another side of American Islam. Until recently, the study of the African transmission of Islam to America has been ne-glected, partly because materials are scarce, and partly because early observers were often igno-rant of Islam or had reasons for downplaying the fact that God-fearing, literate people among the enslaved had to be written off as heathen and backwards in order to justify the institution.

And yet the numbers of en-slaved Africans who were Mus-

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Right-Wingers Would Be Shocked to Learn That Islam Has Been Part of American History Since Its Founding

AlterNet / By Lynn ParramoreRecently, just as turmoil in

the Middle East erupted, New York straphangers were treated to hateful anti-Muslim billboards, courtesy of Pamela Geller, leader of “Stop Islamization of Amer-ica.” The ads, which declared that radical Muslims are “sav-ages” waging war on the civi-lized world, created a furor and resulted in widespread deface-ments (for a roundup, check out the Awl), the arrest of a journal-ist , and possible changes to the rules governing subway and bus advertisements that might incite violence.

Islamophobia is back with a vengeance. Geller, a self-appoint-ed hate czar, catapulted herself to racist celebrity back in 2010 with shrill denouncements of an Is-lamic community center in Low-er Manhattan near the site of the World Trade Center. Since then, her repeat warnings of Islam’s foreign threat to America have resonated powerfully in a post-9/11 world where violent protests in the Middle East over a crude anti-Muslim film have triggered a fresh wave of anxiety.

It would undoubtedly shock Geller and her Islamophobic bud-dies to know that Muslims have been in America for so long they could almost have formed a wel-coming committee to the Daugh-ters of the Revolution.

Consider this: Anthony “The Turk” Janszoon van Salee , son of the president of the Republic of Salé in Morocco, was among the earliest and richest settlers of Manhattan island, a devout Mus-lim, and the ancestor of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Whitneys, Hum-phrey Bogart, and, according to family lore, Jacqueline Bouvier. That’s right: the Lady of Camelot apparently had a mixed-race Muslim as an ancestor! One of van Salee’s first properties was a farm in lower Manhattan acquired in 1638 located on the north side of the stockade along present-day Wall Street, just blocks from the Park Place Islamic center char-acterized by Geller as a foreign presence on sacred American soil. A defender of minorities, van Salee became the first settler of Brooklyn. Coney Island, which abutted his property, was known as “Turk’s Island” until the 19th century.

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By Tarek AmaraTUNIS, Oct 10 (Reuters)

- After decades of secular rule, Tunisia’s government aims to develop Islamic banking in the country, but some suspect the government’s motives are more political than economic: it wants to win the support of voters.

Governments across North Africa are promoting Islamic fi-nance in the wake of last year’s Arab Spring uprisings, which ousted regimes that neglected or discouraged the business for ide-ological reasons.

The change of policy could bring economic benefits, giving the countries more access to a huge pool of Islamic investment funds from the Gulf. But as the controversy in Tunisia shows, there are political complications.

“Tunisia is looking to be-come a regional center for Islamic finance,” Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jbeli declared in June.

Jbeli, a member of the mod-erate Islamist Ennahda movement which leads Tunisia’s government after the overthrow of president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali last year, said authorities would ensure that Islamic banks were able to com-pete on a level playing field with conventional banks.

But some of Ennahda’s po-litical rivals accuse the movement of using the issue to attract fresh support and head off any chal-

lenge from hardline Islamists in parliamentary elections expected next year, regardless of economic considerations.

Ploughing scarce resources into Islamic banking could end up hurting the economy if it dilutes state support for conventional banks, and creates new Islamic lenders that increase competition while not being fully viable them-selves, critics argue.

“The focus on talking about Islamic finance over the past few months is only political propa-ganda before the next election,” said Adel Chaouch, an official in the Nida Touns, a secular party. “Talking about Islamic banks may increase divisions among Tunisians.”

EconomyEnnahda says Islamic fi-

nance, which obeys religious principles such as bans on the payment of interest and pure monetary speculation, will help the economy recover from the damage it suffered during Ben Ali’s overthrow.

Nearby countries have simi-lar hopes. Egypt’s Muslim Broth-erhood wants to promote Islamic finance and Morocco, also led by a moderate Islamist party, says it plans to become a regional hub for the business.

Morocco’s General Affairs and Governance Minister, Najib Boulif, told Reuters in March

Tunisia’s Islamic Finance Push Has Political Echoes

that the government was drafting a bill that would include regula-tions covering Islamic financial products.

In Tunisia, there are currently only two Islamic banks because of the Ben Ali regime’s coolness towards the industry. Their assets total 1.4 billion dinars ($893 mil-lion), or just 2.5 percent of the combined assets of all Tunisian banks, according to the central bank; in Gulf Arab countries, Is-lamic banks are estimated to hold about a quarter of banking assets.

Committees set up by the fi-nance ministry, religious affairs ministry and the central bank are now working on a law that would facilitate the creation of more Is-lamic banks.

Nadia Kamha, director-general of the central bank, said the bill would be ready “within weeks” and that it would then be presented to the government for approval.

“Islamic finance can ac-comodate large groups of Tuni-sian people who have not been absorbed by traditional banks,” said central bank governor Chadli Ayari. Tunisia plans to issue its first sovereign Islamic bond ear-ly next year as it diversifies its sources of funding, Ayari told Re-uters late last month.

Access to another pool of capital would be welcome; Tuni-sia expects to run a budget deficit of 5.9 percent of gross domestic product next year, when the gov-ernment will need to raise an of-ficially estimated 4-4.3 billion dinars.

PoliticsBut sceptics argue the gov-

ernment’s vision of an Islamic banking boom in Tunisia is fan-ciful. Fethi Jerbi, an economics professor at the University of Tu-nis, said it was unclear whether the economy could support more Islamic banks.

“The conditions for success in the Gulf countries are not avail-able in Tunisia for Islamic bank-ing products,” because Tunisia is not as rich as Gulf economies and its financial system is not as well developed, he said.

He also said authorities’ fo-cus on promoting Islamic banking risked neglecting conventional banks, which could have serious consequences for the banking sector and the economy.

In a report last month, credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s said Tunisia’s banking sector faced “very high risk” in areas such as funding of the system.

It added that although the government had been supportive of banks, it had limited capacity to provide emergency aid to the sector in the event of a major cri-sis.

Noureddine Bhiri, Minister of Justice and an Ennahda leader, strongly denied that the Islamic banking drive was a political ploy.

“Turning to Islamic finance does not fall within political pro-paganda. The Tunisian revolu-tionary government does not need propaganda to attract voters,” he told a seminar.

Kamha said that while there was disagreement over whether


Syed Taj is a prominent Canton doctor, a can-didate in what will likely be a close race for Michi-gan’s 11th District congressional seat.

Taj has consistently risen to prominence in any endeavor he engaged in. He began in medi-cal school in India, moved to the US, and acquired citizenship.

He acquired prominence as a doctor and ran for Canton trustee. He won, and served honorably, gaining the trust and endorsement of Republicans for his current run for congress.

He currently faces Tea Party activist Kerry Bentivolio to take the seat once held by Republi-can Thaddeus McCotter, who somehow became en-mired in a scandal after failing to earn enough legiti-mate petition signatures to enter the congressional race. McCotter’s bizarre failure left the race wide open--Syed Taj had to face a LaRouche candidate in the primary, whom he defeated.

Now he faces a Milford Tea Party activist who may only have any hope because he is a tea party activist. Bentivolio is not a serious candidate other than by association with what was a few years ago a nascent and very vibrant community, but a com-munity whose future is now at least unpredictable.

Bentivolio is a perennial Santa Clause, a failed businessman and dabbling reindeer farmer who has garnered endorsements primarily from tea party stalwarts and Republican party outcasts from the fringes and extremes of that party.

Syed Taj is a Bihari Indian doctor who has managed to create good relations, and build a strong and honorable reputation, with Republicans in a Re-publican district. He is intelligent and thoughtful about current issues, and cares deeply about provid-ing healthcare to all.

Taj is a candidate who, on his own and inde-pendent of the love we might feel for him as one of our own--is simply a far stronger candidate than his opponent. Add to that his disposition, temperament, skill with people, professional acumen, and his in-telligence--and you are left with a candidate who would be not only a benefit to all of the citizens of the 11th District of Michigan, but in fact a congress-man who would bring credit to the congress itself.

Therefore we endorse Syed Taj and encourage all readers living in Michigan’s 11th district to vote for him in the coming election.

Vote early and pray all day!

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SE Michigan newsCompiled by Adil James, [email protected]

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Advocates Call for Immediate Release of Hector Orozco and Resignation of Detroit ICE En-forcement Director Rebecca Adducci

DETROIT – At a rally to-day outside Cesar Chavez Acad-emy in Southwest Detroit, doz-ens of community leaders stood in solidarity with families who had been stopped or detained by Immigration and Customs En-forcement agents outside local schools the previous day.

“As a community member I am outraged, and as a mother, I am heartbroken. ICE has once again violated their policies, and stopped parents dropping their kids off for school. The leader-ship of Detroit ICE is either un-willing or unable to control their agents, so that’s why we’re call-ing for the immediate resigna-tion of Detroit ICE Enforcement Director Rebecca Adducci. We need immediate accountability for this out-of-control depart-ment,” said State Representative Rashida Tlaib, who responded to calls for help at the school on Tuesday.

Between the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM on Tuesday, October 16th, two families were approached while they were dropping off their children for school. Hector Orozco was dropping his son off at Cesar Chavez Middle School, and is still in detention. Advocates are calling for his immediate release to his family.

A second family was stopped just outside Manuel Reyes Vistas Nuevas Head Start Center. The agent temporarily released the family to drop off their children, and told them that they would be detained at their home. The family took refuge in the elementary school until advocates could intervene.

The father, Jorge, explained, “We were taking the children to school, the same as we do every day. The immigration agents stopped my car, and were about to arrest me. Then my son begged them, ‘Please, don’t take my dad. He’s just taking us to school.’ That’s when the agent told me to drop the children off and then come back to my house where he would be waiting. It was terrifying.”

A firestorm erupted last year after half a dozen ICE agents surrounded Hope of De-troit Academy, trapping parents inside. At the time, ICE prom-ised strengthened enforcement of their ‘Sensitive Community

Locations’ policy, which bars such activity except in extreme circum-stances.

The rally was also supported by representatives from Cesar Chavez Academy, Vistas Nuevas Head Start, the UAW, the Detroit AFL-CIO, Latino Family Services, ACCESS, the Lutheran Synod of Southeast Michigan, Wayne State University Latino Studies, State Voices, the ACLU, State Repre-sentative Fred Durhal, and others.

To learn more about Alliance for Immigrant Rights & Reform Michigan, please visitwww.michi-ganimmigrationreform.org, follow them on Facebook at ReformIm-migrationFORAmericaMI or on Twitter at @RI4AMichigan

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Mansoor Khan re-ceives top pharma-ceutical award

During the Opening Session of the 2012 American Associa-tion of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Ex-position Dr. Mansoor Khan was recognised for his ground-break-ing research.

He was awarded the Re-search Achievement Award in Formulation Design and Devel-opment. Mansoor Khan, R.Ph., Ph.D., is a Senior Biomedical Research Scientist (SBRS) and serves as the Director of Product

tech drug programs. Dr. Khan is an AAPS Fellow, and serves on the editorial board of several leading journals.

West Bloomfield mosque asks town-ship to table plans

WEST BLOOMFIELD--Developers of a mosque in West Bloomfield Township have re-quested that plans slated for re-view at the Planning Commis-sion’s Oct. 23 meeting be tabled.

That request, which Islamic Cultural Association (ICA) rep-resentatives said was made to address concerns, led the Zon-ing Board of Appeals (ZBA) to table requests for a determination on height limitations for some of the building’s architectural fea-tures and for an exemption from a requirement to build a masonry wall on the west property line.

Beydoun appointed VP-Multicultural Marketing

Internationally prominent Nasser M. Beydoun has joined Detroit-based Bassett & Bassett Communication Managers and Counselors as Vice President – Multicultural Marketing, bring-ing a global perspective to local and regional ethnic marketing.

Beydoun has earned an in-ternational reputation for build-ing multicultural and economic bridges between mainstream America and its growing ethnic markets.

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Nasser is deeply involved in broad-based multicultural com-munity and civic organizations as well as in Arab and Muslim communities. He was formerly

Quality Research in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) in FDA. Prior to join-ing FDA in 2004, Dr. Khan was a Professor of Pharmaceutics and Director of Graduate Pro-gram in the School of Pharmacy at Texas Tech University. He has earned his Ph.D. degree in Indus-trial Pharmacy from the St. John’s University School of Pharmacy in 1992. He has published over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, four texts, 15 book chapters, and has been invited to give more than 150 presentations world-wide. Dr. Khan’s research focuses primar-

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Center spoke, and there was an introduction to local community leaders. Then there were semi-nars on vital but uncomfortable issues in the Muslim community, namely suicide, poverty, healing the family, and several other so-cial issues, including crime and drug abuse.

Siraj Wahhaj spoke at length on the work he has done in what was once a very bad neighbor-hood in Brooklyn, where he was able to buy a mosque for only $25,000, and where for 40 days and 40 nights his community for-bade people from entering drug houses--until the drug houses went out of business.

The imam said that he did not recommend that the Flint commu-nity use the same procedure.

The theme of his speech was that through faith, devotion, and dedication, with the emphasis on faith, Muslims will resolve problems in the communities

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Mubarakah IbrahimBy Almas Akhtar, TMO

A certified personal trainer who balances family and career.

Mubarakah Ibrahim is a Muslim lady in her 30’s who is a certified personal trainer, owner of her own fitness studio BAL-ANCE for women where she of-fers fitness education, group les-sons and also private lessons. She also gives lectures and talks about healthy living and fitness. She is a married mother of four kids and resides in New Haven, CT with her family. She gained a lot of weight during pregnancy, after birth of her baby she read many books and put together a work out plan to lose weight. It took her four months to get rid of all the extra pounds. After that fam-ily and friends started discussing their own weight loss goals with her. Ms. Ibrahim helped a lot of people and later she attended

Southern CT State University majoring in Exercise Science. She also earned a certificate through AFFA (American Fitness and Aerobic Association) .

Mubarakah Ibrahim is a little different from other trainers in the sense that she works out while wearing a ‘hijab’ (head scarf) and covers her entire body except her face and hands. Her fitness stu-dio is all women’s fitness studio. Her advice is ‘ exercise and eat healthy; work out is king and diet is queen , together they make a perfect kingdom ‘.

She was also invited to the Oprah Winfrey Show where she talked about not only Muslim women but women of the world “our goals are the same. All of us want to raise our kids to be con-tributing members of the society, to be healthy, to be happy “.Ms. Ibrahim is also motivational speaker , she gives speeches at “Health Seminars” across the world.

Endorsement--Bridget Mary McCormackTMO

Bridget Mary McCormack is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and she is run-ning for a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court in the November election. She has a great deal of expe-rience in a variety of legal arenas, and she is the best candidate in the race. She deserves our vote.

Ms. McCormack is an accomplished lawyer and educator, a respected advocate for the rights of families, children and innocent people who have been wronged by the system. She currently serves as the associate dean for clinical affairs at Michigan Law School, meaning that she supervises all of the real-world, practical work done by students enrolled

in the clinical programs at the law school. In that position, she has created legal assistance programs for small businesses, poor children who need health-care, women who have suffered domestic violence and innocent people who have been wrongfully con-victed. She is highly respected by even those who disagree with her, and will be an informed and in-dependent voice who brings positive change to the Michigan Supreme Court.

Please vote for Bridget Mary McCormack in the non-partisan section of the ballot for the November election (this may be on the backside of the ballot).

Healing Flint ConferenceBy Adil James, TMO

Flint--October 12-13--Flint’s problems are many. The wid-est good publicity that Flint Michigan has is the success of its controversial but deeply well-intentioned son, the filmmaker Michael Moore. Flint has the dis-honor of having been America’s murder capital. A city with only 102,000 people, Flint regularly experiences murder rates of sev-eral dozen annually.

In 2011 it was said that the murder rate in Flint was worse than Newark New Jersey, St. Louis, New Orleans, or even Baghdad.

And it needs to be healed. This healing was the subject of a wonderful and beautifully orga-nized conference this past Friday and Saturday at 4800 South Sagi-naw, just on the southern border of Flint.

The event was attended by

about 500 guests in total. Many prominent speakers were at the event including Imam Siraj Wahhaj of Brooklyn’s Masjid at Taqwa, Imam Mohamed Magid, a Virginian, a Sudanese-born American who came to the US in 1987 (prominent in ISNA), Shaikh Ismael Mukhtar, the son of the Mufti of Eritrea, and Iyad Alnachef.

The event began Friday with a dinner and welcome by Safaa Zarzour, ISNA Secretary General.

Sheikh Ismaeel Mukhtar provided a seminar on the model community based on religious values, and Sheikh Abdullah Wa-heed provided one on healing the hearts--task of the prophets.

Friday was well attended. Saturday began with tours of

an Animal Oasis Bird Encounter (a 28 foot trailer walk-in bird ex-hibit.)

Dr. Jondy of the Flint Islamic

10 The Muslim Observer Volume 14, Issue 43; Oct. 19 - 25, 2012sports

The muslim sports observerCompiled by Parvez Fatteh, Founder of http://sportingummah.com, [email protected]

Bahraini Takeover of Leeds United on Shaky Ground

By Parvez Fatteh, Founder of http://sportingum-mah.com, [email protected]

Leeds United is a once-proud English football team that just over a decade ago was in the European Champions League semifinals. But mismanagement and misfortune ensued, sending the club as low as Division One in England. They’ve currently been floundering in the Championship League, one level below the Premiership, for the past handful of years, on the outside looking in. But now a prospective Bahraini takeover of the team has its fans dreaming of a return to glory. Unfortunately, the financial port-folio of the Bahraini group may turn those dreams to continued nightmares. But the Dubai-based in-vestment firm negotiating to take over Leeds, one of English soccer’s most famous clubs, appears to have little financial fire power to complete the deal, accounts of its Bahrain parent firm Gulf Finance House show.

Dubai-based GFH Capital has been in exclu-sive talks to buy Leeds, which it estimates has a market value of around 52 million pounds ($83 mil-lion). But GFH group had more than a quarter of a billion dollars of accumulated losses and less than $6 million in cash at the end of June. And the Bah-rain company has previously taken big fees from projects that rarely see completion, according to an internal document from 2010 reviewed by Reuters

and verified by four former insiders.“Words don’t buy football clubs; money buys

football clubs. We would expect to see evidence of GFH’s ability to fulfill their claims and promises in the very near future after the takeover,” said Gary Cooper, Chairman of the Leeds United Supporters’ Trust, an independent fan group with over 8,300 members.

GFH Capital Chief Executive David Haigh said his company had the resources to complete the transaction and buy new players, but gave no further details on the deal, citing a non-disclosure agreement during negotiations. “We have the funds to buy the club, and it is our intention to buy Leeds United as quickly as possible,” he said. Referring to the period when players are bought and sold, he added: “We have identified a budget for the Janu-ary transfer window; that is critical for the future requirements of the team.”

Leeds United declined to comment, citing the confidentiality agreement, while current owner Ken Bates, who tends to communicate with the press via public statements, told Leeds United channel he was not responsible for the delay in closing the deal, first announced on Sept 27. Leeds fans are so fed up with Bates that they have been chanting “Bates Out” at many of the home matches. It appears that those chants may continue to go unanswered.

First Ever Afghan Pro Soccer League OpensBy Parvez Fatteh, Founder of http://sportingummah.com, [email protected]

The first professional foot-ball league in Afghanistan his-tory kicked-off on in Kabul this past week. The Afghan Premier League (APL) opened to a near-capacity crowd of 3,500, as Les Maiwand Atalan (Heroes of Maiwand), – a mythical moun-tain in the unstable region of the Helmand province – defeated the Shaneen Asmayee (The Asmayee Eagles) 3-1 in the kick-off match. Unlike the English Premier League, however, the APL season will not even last one month, as it will wrap up on October 19. But this amounts to baby steps for a soccer-loving nation that has been torn apart by foreign invad-ers and internal ethnic rivalries.

“I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved today. I’m proud that we managed to organize such an event and I would like to send more positive messages, not only about today,” APL commissioner Said Shafir Gawari told the press in the wake of a suicide attack that killed 12 people, includ-ing nine foreigners, in Kabul on Tuesday. “Most of the Afghan

population are young people. They’re under 25. We would like to bring our message to the majority of Afghans, and to the world, that Afghans can play to-gether, and that we have teams composed of different tribes, of different ethnicities. If you look at the Kandahar team, they are not only composed of Pashtuns. They are Hazaras and other eth-nicities too,” continued Shafir Gawari.” The Pashtuns, many of whom joined the Taliban, have historically been opposition to the Tadjiks, Uzbeks and Hazares, the other dominant ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

Eight teams will meet dur-ing the group phase of the tour-nament. The top four teams will then progress to the semi-finals, eventually leading to a winner. There will be a total of 16 match-es played, all televised across the country on two of the leading net-works, one in the Dari language, and the other in Pashtun. An in-teresting twist has also been add-ed, with a section of APL players being chosen from television re-ality shows that attracted the ap-plications of thousands of young Afghans.

An Afghan soccer player kicks a ball during a friendly match in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 16, 2012. Amid a deadly war in an impoverished nation, the promise of a new professional football league is offering a glimmer of hope in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Mystery Spinners Crack Twenty20 Code

By Shihar AneezCOLOMBO (Reuters) -

Modern bats and the crash-bang format of 20-over cricket may suggest otherwise but Ajantha Mendis and fellow practitioners of unorthodox spin bowling have proved they are not in the World Twenty20 just to play cannon-fodder.

Field restrictions and the batsman’s freedom stemming from the format’s brevity make 20-over cricket indubitably the most batsman-biased of the game’s three formats.

Denied the luxury of close-

in fielders, spinners often retreat into a defensive shell, sacrificing flight to embrace the safer method of darting flat and faster deliver-ies for a possible dot ball.

However, the likes of Men-dis, Saeed Ajmal and Sunil Narine have proved in the ongo-ing World Twenty20 that they not only possess the craft to escape any batting carnage but can ac-tually emerge as genuine match-winners.

Mendis has returned from a back problem to bowl all five variations, including the “carrom ball”, which he flicks using his

middle finger, to be Sri Lanka’s best bowler in the tournament claiming nine wickets from four matches.

Off-spinner Ajmal has played the same role for Pakistan, grabbing eight wickets from five matches, using his ‘doosra’ - the delivery which spins the other way - to bamboozle batsmen.

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene insisted both Men-dis and Ajmal are much more than just mystery spinners.

“Those guys are playing for five-six years. So I don’t know whether there is enough mystery (left) in it. Lot of the guys have played them,” Jayawardene told reporters on Wednesday.

“You have to give them cred-it, they’ve been two quality spin-

ners. People have analysed them and seen videos of them. But all these guys are quality spinners. They have got some talent and they have been showcasing that.”

So has been West Indies off-spinner Narine whose bag of tricks makes the 24-year-old tweaker from Trinidad quite a handful in the sub-continent.

“Sunil is our trump card, he’s done well for us in that format,” West Indies captain Darren Sam-my said.

“In Sri Lankan conditions if he’s got assistance he will be a handful.”

(Writing by Amlan Chakraborty; editing by Sudipto Ganguly)

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ties they live in.“You have to have an attitude

of defiance” against the wrongs of your community--like the promi-nent activists of the civil rights era including Rosa Parks.

“Start from the foundation,” meaning faith. A seed grows down first, not directly into the open, it sets strong roots and then when it grows up with full roots “there is nothing you can’t do.”

Fabius had described Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s position as “going backwards.”

“Lavrov came to explain to us that Assad will not leave power,” the paper quoted Fabius as saying after a European Union foreign ministers meeting in Lux-embourg.

Chinese Vice Foreign Min-ister Cui Tiankai said his country was taking “a position for peace ... What other countries are doing or have been doing are creating the circumstances for even more bloodshed,” he told reporters in Brussels.

“Some countries are provid-ing weapons, to any side, whether the government side or the oppo-sition side in Syria. We are not doing that. We are not giving them weapons.”

Outgunned rebels have struggled to turn the tide of con-flict against government forces endowed with tanks, jets and he-licopter gunships. But Western powers have been reluctant to arm the insurgents because they perceive no coherent leadership and fear that weapons are ending up in the hands of Islamist jihadi

militants increasingly evident in the conflict.

Mistrust and miscommuni-cation have dominated relations between rebel brigades and each privately accuse the other of in-competence. Differences over leadership, tactics and sources of funding have also widened rifts between largely autonomous bri-gades scattered across Syria.

The rebel sources said coun-tries who have supported the revolt but whose own rivalries have exacerbated rebel divisions agreed that it was time the rebels fight side by side.

“There will never be unity inside Syria unless the countries supporting the revolt agree be-cause each group is supported and backed by (one) country,” one source said.

“Now the countries are be-coming nervous and the Syr-ian issue has become bigger than they expected and almost out of control.”

Rebel leaders believe a com-mon fighting front would enable coordination of multi-faceted op-erations crucial to success against a better armed adversary.

“If a brigade wants to hit a (government) checkpoint then

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is pointed, and bodies are buried point-ing to the east. The Nation of Islam may have been the 20th-century manifestation of a very ancient connection to a religion that had lived on in the South for centu-ries among African Amerians even though it was overtaken by Christianity. Historian Michael Gomez points out that Elijah Mu-hammad, born in 1898 in Georgia, grew up at a time when Islam may still have been practiced by African-born Muslims, and the children and grandchildren of early Muslims were likely aware of their Islamic heritage.

On plantations throughout the South, particularly in the early period of slavery, it would have been possible to see en-slaved Africans with names like Mustapha and Fatima kneeling on prayer mats, their faces turned toward the rising sun. (Writ-ing of “Arabic-Africans” along the coast of Georgia, Joel Chandler Harris called them

“not the most numerous, but the most no-ticeable” type.) Some planters particularly sought slaves from Senegambia for their knowledge of rice cultivation, and some Southern slave owners considered Mus-lims superior to non-Muslims as workers, though others considered their education and literacy to be dangerous.

A few enslaved Muslims achieved notoriety, such as Bilali, a “driver” who managed a large plantation on Sapelo Is-land, Georgia and who, when called upon by his owner to defend the island against the British in 1813, gave a reply that re-vealed his status and religious pride: “I will answer for every Negro of the true faith, but not for the Christian dogs you own.” (Bilali went on to defend the plantation with a force of 80 armed slaves.) In Fay-etteville, North Carolina, a jailed runaway slave from Charleston, South Carolina, astonished locals with his princely bear-ing and the beautiful signs he made on the wall, writing from right to left. Omar ibn

Said, a Muslim scholar, was bought by the brother of the governor of the state, who was intrigued by this highly literate man who eventually wrote his autobiography in Arabic, the only slave to do so in captivity. His Arabic Bible, procured with the help of Francis Scott Key, can be seen today in the library of Davidson College.

Polls show that Americans remain un-familiar with Islam, and according to the ACLU, anti-mosque activity has bubbled up in more than half of U.S. states in the last five years. Yet Islam is inextricably woven into the fabric of American history, from the distinctive service of Muslims in all American wars, including the Revolu-tion, to the legacy of their descendents, which include notable figures. (Abolition-ist Frederick Douglass changed his name from Frederick Bailey, and it is possible that the name “Bailey” is a form of the Ara-bic common name “Bilali.”)

Muslims wish to be seen as Ameri-cans, and a look at America’s Islamic roots

proves that they have every right to be – even more, perhaps, than those who rail against them. It’s time to clarify the confu-sion about the role of Islam in early Amer-ica and remind ourselves that far from being a foreign presence, Muslims have exerted an influence on American culture even greater than their numbers would suggest from the very beginning. The real foreign presence is Islamophobia, which is completley at odds with America’s found-ing principles.

For further information on America’s Islamic roots, see Allan D. Austin’s Af-rican Muslims in Antebellum America. Helpful articles include Michael Gomez’s “Muslims in Early America” published in the Journal of Southern History and Thom-as Custis Parramore’s “Muslim Slave Aris-tocrats in North Carolina” published in the North Carolina Historical Review. I was aware of this history as a child because the last historian mentioned is my late father.

Lesson: Even if you know a bit about the law, get an estate pro to write your will.” (Forbes, 10 Celebrity Estate Planning Mis-takes)

I was recently reading an-other article in Forbes and came across a story from another law-yer whose clients attempted DIY wills. The results weren’t pretty: (1) One involved an individual who purchased a DIY form and left the area “[insert name here]” blank, thus leaving his inheritance to “[insert name here”] instead of to their spouse; (2) Second involved a typo, where the indi-vidual put a decimal point where there should have been a comma ($200.000, instead of $200,000), which obviously became a con-tested issue. Although this situ-ation could be rectified, it would

require additional time, addition-al costs, and additional stress.

Furthermore, there are ad-ditional important information that is often overlooked in DIY wills: Many who choose DIY wills are unaware that there are various types of assets that do not pass through a will or living trust. This is often referred to as “passing by operation of law.” These assets include, but are not limited to, certain bank accounts, IRAs, 401Ks, and life insurance policies, which can automatically be made payable to the person you’ve named. Therefore, al-though you may have intended to have assets distributed to one person, a portion of them can be distributed to someone else.

For the reasons I don’t do my own taxes, or cut my own hair, or diagnose my own sickness, peo-ple should not do their own wills. There are attorneys out there who

can provide much needed infor-mation on the best steps to take when establishing your estate plan. Will there be a cost for this service, definitely. But, the cost could be far outweighed by the savings. Remember, DIY wills will not provide any information on how to save on taxes or protect your assets from lawsuits. Some things are just meant to be han-dled by professionals.

Adil Daudi is an Attorney at Joseph, Kroll & Yagalla, P.C., focusing primarily on Asset Pro-tection for Physicians, Physi-cian Contracts, Estate Planning, Shariah Estate Planning, Health Care Law, Business Litigation, and Corporate Formations. He can be contacted for any ques-tions related to this article or other areas of law at [email protected] or (517) 381-2663.

EID AL ADHA TO ALL.The Islamic Shura Council

of Southern California is pleased to announce the beginning of the blessed month of Dhul Hijjah on Wednesday the 17th of October leading to the day of Arafah on Thursday the 25th of October fol-lowed by the celebration of Eid al Adha on Friday the 26th of Octo-ber, InshaAllah.

In this blessed month, “let us also reaffirm our commitment to follow the legacy of Prophet Ibrahim (may God be pleased with him) in proclaiming the One God, Creator of all, and his prophetic message of peace and harmony for all,” said Dr. Mu-zammil Siddiqi, Chairman of the Islamic Shura Council. We also wish the pilgrims a blessed Hajj

experience and also extend a joy-ous Eid al Adha to everyone with special prayers for God’s mercy and peace for everyone and ev-erywhere, he added.

Shura Council will soon pub-lish a list of Eid al Adha prayer gatherings and schedule that will be posted on our website.

Islamic Shura Council of Southern California

The Islamic Shura Coun-cil is an umbrella organization of Mosques & Muslim organi-zations serving the Muslims of Southern California. Since 1995, the Council continues to foster the spirit and culture of “working together” at all levels in one of the most diverse and largest Mus-lim populations in the country.

www.shuracouncil.org | Tel: (714) 239-6473 | [email protected]

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an intelligence unit would check it out and then raise a report up to the (regional) command. The command will take a decision on the number of men needed for this operation and the kind of

weapons plus other issues,” an-other rebel source said.

(Additional reporting by Louis Charbonneau at the Unit-ed Nations, John Irish in Paris, Angus MacSwan in Lebanon,

Khaled Oweis in Amman, Ethan Bilby in Brussels, Naomi O’Leary in Rome; Writing by Dominic Ev-ans; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Imam Siraj Wahhaj speaks to the Healing Flint Conference Saturday October 13, 2012.

16 The Muslim Observer Volume 14, Issue 43; Oct. 19 - 25, 2012health & nutrition

The Rules of Sudoku: The classic Sudoku game in-volves a grid of 81 squares. The grid is divided into nine blocks, each containing nine squares.

The rules of the game are simple: each of the nine blocks has to contain all the numbers 1-9 within its squares. Each number can only appear once in a row, col-umn or box.

The difficulty lies in that each vertical nine-square column, or horizontal nine-square line across, within the larger square, must also contain the numbers 1-9, with-out repetition or omission.

Every puzzle has just one solution (see p. 8).

ANON # 1

1 44 3 6

9 87 4 1 2

2 9 4 58 6 5 3

8 73 9 6

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Sudoku Puzzle! Moussaka (Eggplant & Ground Meat)--Variation by FizzaBy Fizza, [email protected]

Note: If you see ingredients here that are available in haram or halal form (like vanilla extract), you can choose for yourself which form you want to use--TMO is absolutely not advocating that you use haram or questionable ingredients.

Ingredients:

2 large eggplants1 (19 oz) tomato can2 medium onions chopped1 lb ground beef½ cup water1 green bell pepper2 tsp salt1tsp pepper¼ tsp cinnamon powderPinch nutmeg3 tbsp vegetable oil Method:

Slice the eggplant and deep fry on both sides until golden brown. Place the fried slices on paper towel to drain off excess oil.

Fry onions until golden brown in a heat-ed oil in a separate saucepan.

Add meat and spices and fry until well browned.

Remove from heat, add hot water and stir to absorb water into meat. Return to medium heatand simmers.

Then add the canned tomatoes to the meat and allow the mixture to sim-mer for 20 minutes, stirring on a low heat until the oil appears on the sur-face. Remove from heat.

Spread one third of the meat mixture on the bottom of a 13x9 inch oven safe baking dish.

Pyloric Stenosis By Fasiha Hasham, [email protected]

Introduction

A congenital disorder com-monly seen in children, there is narrowing of the pylorus, part of the food track which connects the stomach to the small intestine. Obstruction occurs due to this narrowing and results in projectile or forceful vomiting and is usually after feeding. As the food is un-able to pass and get absorbed in the small intestine the child suffers from nutritional deficiencies.

Symptoms

Forceful vomiting during or just after feeding.

Wave like stomach contrac-tion noticeable on the infant’s ab-dominal wall.

Cause

It is a disorder which is con-genital which can be easily treated in infants. Cause is believed to be a genetic disorder or environmental factor.

The pylorus becomes nar-rowed due to the thickening of the muscle layer. It is more com-mon in boys than girls and also in first born infants. Women, who were born with or have a male rel-ative with this disorder, have more chances of having children with this disorder.

Pyloric stenosis can also de-

velop in adults as a result of du-odenal or stomach or intestinal cancers.

Diagnosis and Treatment

Symptoms and examination of the infant, helps the pediatri-cian come to the diagnosis. When the abdomen of the infant is ex-amined, a small, firm and movable growth like the size of an olive can be felt with hand. The pediatri-cian also observes the baby during feeding notes the abdominal con-tractions and projectile vomiting. The diagnosis is confirmed when a contrast X-ray is taken, this X-ray is known as Barium swallow.

Once the diagnosis is made, immediate surgery is recommend-ed which is the only cure in the congenital type. The abdominal is opened and incision is made to cut the external muscle fibers so that the canal can expand and allow the food to pass into the duodenum.

In case of partial or incom-plete stenosis, surgery can be de-layed until the infant develops strength. In the mean time the infant is given medications before each meal to relax and widen the narrowed pylorus so food can pass with ease.

The Course of the Disease

This condition develops within the first few weeks of

life, but symptoms become appar-ent usually when the infant 2 to 3 weeks old.

Vomiting occurs, which is forceful, foul smelling contain-ing milk curds and mucus. If the

condition is not diagnosed in time the child gradually becomes reluc-tant to eat, lethargic and anxious. Weight gain is slower than normal. If treatment is delayed then meta-bolic imbalances can occur.

After surgery, the amount of food is gradually increased and within a few days the infant is able to feed normally.

Put slices of fried eggplant to form a layer.Cover these with another layer of the meat mixture, then the remaining

eggplant slices and a final top layer of meat mixture.Bake in a preheated 300 degrees oven for 30 minutes. Serve hotServes 6-8


Vice Chairman of the New De-troit coalition which focuses on community-based multicultural pluralism.

Nasser has designed and produced cross-cultural market-ing programs for a wide range of businesses and services ranging from local markets to national and international corporations.

The U.S. Department of State appointed Beydoun as a “Citizen Diplomat” in 2005. He provided counsel and assistance

on multicultural issues in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. He was appointed the first Arab American Liaison to the League of Arab States in 2001 by the or-ganization’s Secretary General, Amre M. Moussa.

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versity, NYU Imam Khalid Latif and Clinton, the daughter of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. They were awarded for their work in “advancing a new model of in-tegrating interfaith and cross cul-tural education into campus life,” through NYU’s Centre for Spiri-tual Life. The centre is is a multi-faith initiative to enhance the edu-cational experience by fostering a community of scholars who sup-port religious expression, leader-ship, integrity, mutual respect and open dialogue. It seeks to provide a safe environment for all stu-dents to grow, explore and deepen their own beliefs and values.

Imam Khalid Latif (OM Leadership Team) is a University

Chaplain for NYU, Executive Director of the Islamic Center at NYU, and a Chaplain for the NYPD. He was appointed the first Muslim chaplain at NYU in 2005. Under his leadership, the Islamic Center at NYU became the first established Muslim student cen-ter at an institution of higher education in the United States. In 2007, Imam Latif became the youngest chaplain in the history of the NYC Police Department at the age of 24. Latif has been fea-tured in numerous media outlets including the Huffington Post, BBC, NPR, CNN, the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Colbert Report, and Time. Imam Latif has been named a Global Interfaith Visionary by the UN Temple of Understanding (2010), one of 100 NYC Luminaries by the NY Public Library (2011),

Interfaithfrom pg 1

Communityfrom pg 8

magazine/journal which seems to be fairly close to U.S. government sources. It was included an e-mailed daily (U.S.) national security briefing.

Why such information would be ob-viously purposefully divulged: Because Israel will brief Washington on what they plan to do over the Iran issue. It is their guarded secret due to the fact that the U.S. has no interest in taking part in a “preven-tive” strike, and D.C. (the District of Co-lumbia) could make it very hard for Tel Aviv to carry it out if the Hebrews plan to do so. As a retired CentCom (the U.S. Central Command) officer is quoted by FP “…we’re not going to go piling in simply because the Israelis want us to.”

It is assumed by American military intelligence that Israel has three options when it comes to attacking Iran. Although Tel Aviv has been uncooperative on in-formational sharing with the Obama Ad-ministration, which shows a likely schism between the District on the political level, has rightful reservations against yet an-other confrontation with a further Muslim country in that it would not be within the best external interests of the United States. Some theoretical situations for such a de-velopment are evolving (probably through computerized war games), though.

There is a grave political fear that the Jewish Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu will order his assault before No-vember sixth to intervene in the American political process to discourage President Barack Obama, who holds a much more favorable opinion of the Islamic world than his Mormon (which is only questionably a Christian sect) Republican challenger, the pro-Israeli Mitt Romney, from achieving a second term a la Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Ultimately, the geo-political impor-tance of peace with Dar al-Islam is essen-tial to the security goals of the American people, and, thereby, is against the secu-rity objectives of the Zionists. Succinctly, what is good for America is too often not so with Israel. I am one of those geo-strategic U.S. writers who deem that Israel is no longer Columbia’s “gurkhas.” They have become an albatross around Washington’s neck – only leading the American Metrop-olis (Center of Empire) into unnecessary entanglements within the Islamic world of no value to the “Imperial Homeland’s” ad-vancement; in fact, has led to this chasm of nuclear war which the great powers must refrain from enabling. .

American military sources hold shrill

opinions on whether Israel has the mili-tary prowess to maintain a piercing thrust into Iran without the United States at their backs. Even though, the civilian govern-ment in Tel Aviv may order the IDF (the Israeli Defense Force) over the Islamic Re-public of Iran even though it could mean a military debacle for them and ultimately endanger the survival of their State itself to, obviously, ensure a “smokescreen” for the perseverance of their illegal Settle-ments and the expulsion of the indigenous Arabs from their ancient land.

The right-wing Zionists fear that a second-term Obama would discourage their immoral and unlawful aims. Con-cisely, this whole crisis has been created by the Likud party in Israel to divert the at-tention from the West of the Settlements by a pseudo-atomic impasse. In short, this is a distasteful endgame with potential disas-trous consequences, and must be discour-aged at all costs!

There are three probable scenarios: The first is an “Iranian Entebbe,” which is named for Israel’s 1976 commando raid into Uganda to rescue of a group hostag-es there. At this time their commandos would be lowered into the Shia Republic’s

Fordow nuclear facility to destroy the enriched uranium; planting explosives as they departed. The objective would be as much to demonstrate their ability to psy-chologically strike into the maximum se-curity facility within the territory of the Medes ancient Empire.

The second possibility is the most assumed: Simply, bombing the nuclear sites with aircraft and submarine-launched cruise missiles along with Israeli-based medium-range Jericho II and long-range Jericho III missiles.

This would, also, create a massive war. Hopefully, with no change in political leadership in Washington in the upcoming elections and restraint by the Revolution-ary Guard, the battle would remain be-tween Tel Aviv and Tehran.

Iran’s nuclear facilities are hard tar-gets – in mountains, and even though the IDF possesses Bunker Buster bombs, in or-der for Israel to pull off a successful sortie, I cannot see how the Israeli air force could do it without tactical nuclear weapons. This brings the issue of Iran’s military (the largest in the Middle East) and Hezbollah to launch a successful conventional coun-ter-attack with their superior conventional payload upon the Israeli nuclear facilities in the Negev and population centers. This could create large scale nuclear pollution over a highly populated area of Arabs and Jews.

At the very least, the human cost of such an immoral assault, which I discussed last week, would turn off any remaining sympathy that the Israeli State may still hold in the non-Muslim world. This in-volves the release of uranium hexafluoride into the environment over the Persians causing up to hundreds of thousands of deaths over the highly populated centers within the nearby habitable habitats.

Further, if an attack becomes immi-nent would the Russian (nuclear) Navy out of its Syrian ports in the Mediterranean or even the French allow such a massacre to happen? Additionally, the variables of Syria and their danger of war with Turkey -- whom NATO (the North Atlantic Trea-ty Organization) and, thereby, the United States have an offensive and defensive Treaty – may force the West into the fray whether like to or not.

Still, the third world nuclear South Asian nations – India and (Islamic) Paki-stan have a large stake in the Gulf (e.g., SASPC, an evolving new-area-studies discipline of South Asian Studies Persian Gulf) and Iran’s natural resources. This could complicate matters, and could either encourage of the settlement of the crisis between Hindu (with the second larg-est Muslim population) India and Islamic Pakistan (with their mutual dependence on Iranian resources; i.e., a repeat of the 2001-2003 Indo-Pakistani stare-down – only a potential enlarged the war at an Israeli at-tack. At the same token, Rawalpindi might feel more threatened by weaponized Teh-ran, and New Delhi has a nominal alliance with both Iran and Tel Aviv. I cannot see Bharat intervening, but for Pakistan, as I discussed in a series of previous articles, to intervene conventionally or unconvention-ally, it would need the tacit nod from its traditional eastern regional “enemy.”

The U.S.’ military intelligence judges that the IDF’s air force would have only a one-time chance of even making a suc-cessful strike because of their logistical constraints without the District of Colum-bia (D.C’) aid. While the Zionist State is attempting to sucker the Metropole(U.S.) into a war against D.C.’ concerns, (there is an Azeri [Azerbaijan], a former Soviet Tur-kic Republic with ethnic cousins in Iran, connection. I have read reliable specula-tion on Azerbaijani willingness to refuel Is-raeli plans. An unreliable document from a shadowy organization who are working to form a unified territory from their ethnic cousins across the border in border claims the Israelis are ”renting” an air base in their Republic north of Iran proper.)

The third option of according the au-

thor in Foreign Policy is “de-capitation,” or regime change, but this would not end Iran’s nuclear program, and most likely the U.S. would be” counter”-attacked, too, with the result that the Persian Revolution-ary Guard would become the ascendant force in the country. This definitely would be a way for forcing the U.S.A. into a war with Israeli, again – not the interests of the State, but the small minority of worldwide Jewry who make up the Settler Colonial State. (It is important to note that all of these projected plans would not end the Iranian capability for refinement by more than two years.

Added to this, the best public intel-ligence estimates is that Iran stopped its weapon program almost a decade ago, and an aggression would only demonstrate the requirement for such a warhead.)

This would lead to a wider war which could include the Revolutionary Guards al-lying themselves to forces with the ability to attack Americans still in Iraq with their NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-tion) withdrawing from Afghanistan.

Also, the Shia and Sunni forces could turn on each other igniting a larger Middle Eastern conflagration, and, in doing thus, could threaten the reforms of the Arab “Spring!” We can only conjecture how such non-State actors such as Al-Qaeda will fill the void.

Whatever, the stupidities that the Israeli government is planning, as one American strategist has stated on the sub-ject “…Israel’s access to intelligence on Iranian military and policy planning is un-precedented…,” but it is keeping its cards close to its breast to, seemingly, leverage the American political process.

That Rogue nuclear State --who claims to be the voice for the larger noble Jewish people in the Diaspora -- is playing a very, very hazardous game which – at the worst -- could ignite a world war with atomic di-mensions!

This exercise has been one of what ifs based on facts uncovered in Foreign Policy, but amplified and played upon by your writer to analyze various scenarios – much like the war games played in think tanks. What I have convinced myself I through this exercise that a most real and precarious situation exists with not even a counter-balance of a MAD (Mutual As-sured Destruction), which in itself cannot be maintained indefinitely at that, operat-ing.

This must be stopped! Men of good-will Pray to Allah (God)!

Attackfrom pg 1

its inception it has expanded its purview. The PCRF sends medi-cal missions, usually but not exclusively, to Palestine to treat children there. If they cannot be treated locally they are flown, at no cost to themselves and their guardian, to a hospital in Dubai or the West. The medical mis-sions also serve to teach the local medical personnel so that more can be done on site.

The PCRF runs a summer camp for disabled children; a Women’s Empowerment Project; supplies wheel chairs and eye glasses; responds to emergencies both natural and man made, and so much more. For the complete story, please access their web site at: www.pcrf.net.

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one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by George-town University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (2009 & 2010), a

Millennial Leader for Social Jus-tice by Auburn Seminary (2011), and he was recently featured in the Christian Science Monitor’s “30 under 30” list (2012).

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Asalam-Alaikum.I and Brother Irfan Khurshid

spent two days in Lebanon visit-ing several Syrian families.

This was an amazing trip.I want to share some quite

touching moments.I will not be mentioning the

names of the places, where we met these families: Some of you will know, where they are.

Now the Government of Lebanon has not allowed tented refugees camps.

So local Lebanese are host-ing most of the Syrian families, and some are living in temporary huts made of bricks & corrugat-ed metallic roofs, along the sea; and AlhumdulilAllah are being helped by NGOs, including Help-ing Hand For Relief & Develop-ment (HHRD): Much much more assistance is needed.

We distributed food ration & children gifts; and met some Syrian families, who are living in an apartment complex being

constructed, and owner has given them the place to live at nominal rent (which is being paid by a lo-cal NGO): These families were middle to lower middle class in Syria, and are in trauma living away from home in one bedroom apartments: Most of the broth-ers were injured and in real bad condition: One of them has lost his legs: Other had brain injuries: Hopefully we will relate the story of Tasneem from this place soon.

We also met Syrian families at an abandoned school, which has been converted into refugee camp, where majority of the chil-dren were orphans, having lost their fathers: Some children were few months old.

Wherever we went, we tried our best to make the children feel happy: So we played games: Like teaching them how to do high fives; having race with them; hold smaller kids & run with them among the older kids; gave them cookies, chocolates, chips, etc.

When we tried to take the pictures, each kid wanted to sit

in our lap (maybe missing their fathers).

Tears came to my eyes, when one small kid asked me to bend down and he kissed my cheek: This was after we gave them cookies, chocolates, & chips: I thought where I have come from (USA), we take these things for granted for our kids, and look this kid is so happy that he has given a special kiss on my cheek: The Gift of my lifetime.

After this kid kissed me, I also hugged, kissed him on the head.

Another kid looked at me, longing for similar gesture: So I took his hand and kissed it: Many kids saw this, and began to ask for my hand, kissed my hands, and put my hands on their eyes: I wanted to cry aloud, but had to control myself: Totally heart wrenching.

Later on we went to a rehab and prosthetic center, where we met a lady, who read us a poetry in Arabic (we have the video).

In the poem she said some-

thing like this - World: So much has happened and you are quiet: Why Why.

Do you know who is this lady: She is a lady, who has lost two of her legs, lost her husband, lost her two children of four and two years: And do you know she was smiling, saying Allah SWT had written this in her fate and she has totally accepted it with a smile: Her only wish is to return back to a happy and prosperous Syria, living among her fellow country-persons: Another totally touching story to listen to: Re-ally I was dumbfounded for a while imagining, if I do not have two legs & still have to live, what state will I be in? But here is someone, she has lost everything, but in actuality, she has gained so much in achieving the Faith in Allah SWT, in coming out of this extreme hardship.

There was one kid here, all smiles, having lost one leg: He loves to bike, but had never got one in life: His main concern was not to have lost the leg, but main

concern was how will he ever ride a bike: Such a passion for some-thing we take for granted: Doc-tor working on his prosthetic is confident that soon he will able to bike and the first bike he will get is from his doctor: We told the boy that although the determina-tion he has shown in these painful times, he has already won all of the races, but InshaAllah he will be winning bike race competi-tions as well.

We also met five other young persons in their late twenties and early thirties, with legs lost, and getting excellent treatment.

We went to a nice hilly area, where on the hills, there are nice apartment buildings; but at the bottom of the hills, we saw homes made of bricks, and on top they have metallic roofs: People of Lebanon, over here make small huts like homes by making bricks themselves, and then housing their relatives from Syria.

We met a Syrian sister, whose Brother-in-Law had made a home for her and nine children.

She lost her husband: Not just lost her husband: Her hus-band was killed and then burnt: This is happening to many men in Syria that they are not only killed, but in fact they are burnt.

It was absolutely nightmar-ish, to listen to such a story from a widow: But again she has rec-onciled with this situation and trying very hard.

Outside we met her and other Syrian children in the area, and played a few games with them: Smiles of these children are worth millions.

These are just a few stories that we learned & saw.

There are hundreds and thou-sands like these; these stories are simply piling every day; and you know just a short visit to them make them feel happy: Really something that can be felt and not written in words.

These were few Syrian sto-ries, but then we also went to a Palestinian Camp, and believe me; I never ever imagined such a horrible place to live: Absolutely unimaginable conditions they are facing: I have seen many Kutchi Abadis in Pakistan, which are al-most similar to what I saw here.

But never thought people do Wadu and take shower with Saltish Water, which causes skin diseases: I did Wadu for Mughrib and my mouth was sour for many hours: As they say in Urdu: To punish someone, send him or her to Kara Pani: That is what this place is. Imagine living in a place, where streets are about two to three feet, have all the utility wires and pipes in the open going over your head and sometimes around your feet: Not suitable for human habitat at all, but our Palestinians Brothers & Sisters in humanity are living here for decades: How & Why? Cannot answer that.

We learned from there that there are many Orphans there and they need our support.

More to come InshaAllah.

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Taliban says its at-tack on Pakistani schoolgirl justified

ISLAMABAD--Taliban in-surgents said on Tuesday that the Pakistani schoolgirl its gun-men shot in the head deserved to die because she had spoken out against the group and praised U.S. President Barack Obama. Malala Yousufzai, 14, was flown to Britain on Monday, where doc-tors said she has every chance of making a “good recovery”.

“I take responsibil-ity” for Benghazi: Clinton

LIMA--U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as-sumed responsibility on Monday for last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which has be-come an issue in the hard-fought U.S. presidential campaign. “I take responsibility” for what hap-pened on September 11, Clinton said in an interview with CNN during a visit to Peru, adding that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden would not be responsible for specific se-curity instructions for U.S. diplo-matic facilities.

Iraqi Shi’ite mili-tants fight for Syria’s Assad

BAGHDAD--Scores of Iraqi Shi’ite militants are fighting in Syria, often alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s troops, and pledging loyalty to Iran’s supreme Shi’ite religious leader, according to militia fighters and politicians in Iraq. Iraqi Shi’ite militia in-volvement in Syria’s conflict ex-poses how rapidly the crisis has spiraled into a proxy war between

International Summary

Casualties:

Coalition KIA in Afghanistan: 6**Cost of war: $2.6 billion ***

total as of this week-- Wednesday 10/17/12

Coalition KIA (both wars): *8,009 Cost of War: $1,383.7 billion

total as of one week ago-- Tuesday 10/9/12

Coalition KIA (both wars): *8,003 Cost of War: $1,381.1 billion

** We have now changed our fo-cus to include only Afghanistan, despite the continually growing death toll from unrest in Iraq that could be attributed to the Ameri-can invasion, because the US has left Iraq. *** www.costofwar.com. Nation-al Priorities Project (NPP) num-bers revised. An estimate based on the current amount budgeted for the war. This number occasional-ly jumps based on new budget al-locations or amended calculations.

Men walk their camels for sale at a cattle market in the outskirts of Faisalabad October 16, 2012. Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate the annual festival of Eid al-Adha or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the annual hajj pilgrimage, by slaughtering goats, sheep, cows and camels in commemoration of the Prophet Abraham’s readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to Allah. REUTERS/Fayyaz Hussain

Assad’s main ally Shi’ite Iran and the Sunni Arab Gulf states sup-porting mostly Sunni rebels fight-ing the president.

Britain blocks hack-er’s extradition to United States

LONDON--A British com-puter hacker accused by the Unit-ed States of causing more than $700,000 damage to U.S. military systems will not be extradited because of the high risk he could kill himself, Britain’s Home Sec-retary Theresa May said on Tues-day. Gary McKinnon, who has been fighting extradition for sev-en years, faced up to 60 years in a U.S. jail if found guilty of what one U.S. prosecutor called the “biggest military computer hack of all time”.

Four killed in Al Qa-eda attack in south-ern Yemen

ADEN--Two al Qaeda mili-tants and two tribesmen allied to the army were killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in south-ern Yemen, tribal sources said on Tuesday. Yemen’s wealthier Gulf neighbors and the United States are concerned that al Qaeda and other Islamist militants operating in Yemen could pose a threat to neighboring top oil producer Sau-di Arabia and to nearby shipping lanes.

Karadzic denies Bos-nia war crimes as he starts defense

THE HAGUE--Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused of some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two, told judges he should be praised for promot-ing peace, not charged with war crimes, an assertion hotly denied by victims watching the trial. Beginning his defense, Karadzic accused Bosnian Muslims of deliberately staging some of the atrocities against their own peo-ple to win international support, drawing gasps of disbelief from Muslim survivors in the gallery of the court on Tuesday.

Colombia, FARC rebels set to start peace talks Wednes-day

BOGOTA/OSLO--Colom-bia’s government and Marxist rebels will start peace talks as planned on Wednesday in Oslo in a bid to end nearly half a cen-tury of conflict after logistical problems delayed the departure of the delegations, Colombia’s government said. President Juan Manuel Santos, facing criticism on security issues, has launched the latest attempt to negotiate a

deal with the leftist Revolution-ary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas.

EU sanctions target Iran oil, gas, tanker companies

B R U S S E L S - - E u r o p e a n Union governments imposed sanctions on Tuesday against major Iranian state companies in the oil and gas industry, and strengthened restrictions on the central bank, cranking up fi-nancial pressure over Tehran’s nuclear program. More than 30 firms and institutions were listed in the EU’s Official Journal as tar-gets for asset freezes in the EU, including the National Iranian Oil

Company (NIOC), a large crude exporter, and the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC).

Palestinians reject U.S. criticism of U.N. status drive

RAMALLAH, West Bank--The Palestinians fended off on Tuesday U.S. criticism of their bid for upgraded status at the United Nations, saying the move would improve prospects for a peace accord with Israel, not damage them. Having failed last year to win recognition of full statehood at the world body, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas now seeks a less ambi-tious promotion to “non-member

state”, which would likely be ap-proved by a vote in the U.N. Gen-eral Assembly.

Cuba lifting much-reviled travel restric-tions

HAVANA--Cuba will scrap much-reviled travel restrictions starting in January, easing most Cubans’ exit and return, state me-dia said on Tuesday, in the com-munist island’s first major immi-gration reform in half a century. The Cuban government imposed broad restrictions on travel start-ing in 1961 to try to stop a mass migration of people fleeing after the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.


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A cyclone is an atmo-spheric pressure distribu-tion in which there is a low central pressure relative to the surrounding pressure. The resulting pressure gra-dient, combined with the Co-riolis effect, causes air to circulate about the core of lowest pressure in a coun-terclockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in a clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. Near the surface of the earth, the frictional drag on the air moving over land or water causes it to spiral gradually inward toward lower pres-sures. This inward movement of air is compensated for by rising currents near the center, which are cooled by

expansion when they reach the lower pressures of high-er altitudes. The cooling, in turn, greatly increases the relative humidity of the air, so that “lows” are generally characterized by cloudiness and high humidity; they are thus often referred to sim-ply as storms.

According to the theory first proposed by the Nor-wegian physicist Vilhelm Bjerknes, the extratropi-cal, or middle-latitude, cy-clone originates as a wave, or perturbation, in the polar front separating the cold polar easterly winds from the warmer prevailing winds farther toward the equator. This wave, once induced by the opposing air currents, is

accentuated by the rotation-al sense of the circulation, which pumps warm, moist air toward the pole around the eastern side of the cyclone center and cold, dry air to-ward the equator to the west of the center. Such wave cy-clones often intensify, ex-panding the radius of the af-fected area to 500 mi (805 km) or more, while reducing atmospheric pressure, espe-cially toward the center.

Tropical cyclones, formed over warm tropical oceans, are not associated with fronts, as are the mid-dle-latitude wave cyclones, nor are they as large as the latter. A tropical cyclone that has matured to a se-vere intensity is called a hur-ricane when it occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or adjacent seas, a typhoon when it oc-curs in the Pacific Ocean or adjacent seas, or simply a cyclone or tropical cyclone when it occurs in the Indian Ocean region.

Cyclones in middle lati-tudes move generally from west to east along with the prevailing winds and cover 500 to 1,000 mi (800-1,610 km) each day; tropical cy-clones usually move toward the west with the flow of the trade winds during their formative stages, then curve toward the poles around sub-tropical anticyclone.

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ed foreign policies. He extracted US from the costly Iraq war, set a date of departure from Afghani-stan and restrained Israel from her reckless and foolhardy action of attacking Iran. He let the Eu-ropean countries take a lead role in Libya and has adjusted US for-eign policies to a changing world.

His support to democratic changes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere is laudable. As the democratic political power in these countries take firm root and strengthen these democracies, it will bring goodwill and better fu-ture relations with Western coun-tries.

Comparing this to Romney’s foreign policy the latter appears hawkish and war-orientated. His foreign policy advisers are all neo conservatives and extreme right wingers. If they have their say they will dwarf president G W Bush’s War Era and will mark the return of “McCarthyism” and the “war on terror.”

His utterances like, “Presi-dent Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus” are counterproductive and biased. He has not shown any empathy for the people of Palestine. While speaking to wealthy donors at the luxurious King David hotel in Je-rusalem, he said that the low per capita income of Palestinian peo-ple was a cultural phenomenon. He completely ignored the fact that he was talking about a subju-gated people.

On one occasion he said, “I look at the Palestinians not want-ing to see peace anyway, for po-litical purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Is-rael, and these thorny issues, and I say there’s just no way.”

A few weeks ago in a foreign policy speech he said: “A Demo-cratic, prosperous Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the Jewish state of Israel.” A sharp contrast to a

video made public earlier in the campaign that showed Romney telling a group of donors such negotiations had little chance of success. In the light of such con-tradictory talk it is difficult to be-lieve that Romney is a credible candidate.

Health care:The passage of the Afford-

able Care Act (ACA), commonly known as “Obama Care,” is a ma-jor accomplishment for President Obama. The hallmark of this leg-islation is that it covers preexist-ing conditions and will provide mandatory health coverage prac-tically for all.

While Romney has open-ly said that he wants to repeal “Obama Care,” he does not offer any comprehensive plan to re-place it. In fact his health reforms in Massachusetts during his ten-ure as a governor were more or less in line with the current ACA.

The Economy:We all have heard about “Fis-

cal Cliff” but few have grasped what actually it means. We have lost our economic superiority and we are the greatest debtor nation in the world. The dollar has lost its standing as a reserve currency. Invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq accelerated our already deterio-rating economy.

History is replete with exam-ples of war leading to economic decline and loss of a country’s stature in the world.

War and Economy:The Roman Empire’s exter-

nal wars with Attila the Hun start-ed the empire’s decline in the 5th century. The Roman Empire fell because its leader bankrupted it.

The Ottoman Empire fought many wars with Russia. But it was the Crimean War in the nine-teenth century that weakened the Ottoman Empire.

The war against the inde-pendent Boer republic of South Africa from 1897 to 1907 led to setting of the sun of the British Empire.

The Soviet empire bank-rupted itself and disintegrated because of its war in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.

Our war in Vietnam (1965 to 1973) led to severe economic decline. And the invasion of Af-ghanistan on Oct 7, 2001 and in Iraq on March 20, 2003 acceler-ated that decline.

The resiliency of US econ-omy, so far, has withstood the brunt but we already see the un-raveling beginning.

We have spent trillions of dollars after the witch hunt (like WMD) and raising the bogey of Islamophobia for political expe-diency.

It is heartening to see Obama’s commitment to pull-ing out of Afghanistan. He has resisted all attempts to go to an-other war, specifically with Iran. If Romney is elected there is a strong possibility that he may get us embroiled in another war, with disastrous economic and human consequences.

Neither the economic poli-cies of Obama nor Romney are likely to cure the current deficit of over 15 trillion dollars.

Neither policy is a pana-cea; neither is likely to improve the US’s existing economic sta-tus. Because, except rhetoric, it doesn’t address the fundamen-tal issue that the Gross National Product (GNP) measures the prosperity of a country and not Gross National Consumption (GNC).

The economy will take its own long course before it stabi-lizes.

Education:The world envies the US ad-

vanced educational system and its research programs that attract the best brains of the world.

Obama favors the “No Child Left Behind” policy. His “Race to the Top” competition evalu-ates and encourages teachers and promotes charter schools. 45 states have adopted his standards in reading and mathematics. To encourage college education he recommends affordable plans in repayment of loans.

Romney also supports “No Child Left behind” and supports charter schools. The major dif-ference is that Romney believes the education control should be with the state government rather than with the federal government. The other difference is that he fa-vors voucher programs for those students willing to attend school outside their district. He has no concrete plans for the college stu-dent’s loan repayment program.

On Social Security and Medicare:

Democrats believe that the current status is nonnegotiable and is against privatizing social security.

While Republicans are also against privatization, unfortu-nately they see Social Security and Medicare as opportunities to reduce the deficit by cutting these programs. It will cost financially strapped elderly dearly.

The other major difference is that Republicans want to increase the retirement age to 67 from 65 years. And they want to link ben-efits to “prices” rather than the “wages” (current practice). In-dexing with the “price” formula means lesser future payments to social security recipients.

Republicans also want to introduce “voucher” system for Medicare. Individual will receive set priced voucher for health in-surance. One will shop around for the best available health plan. The drawback of this plan is it will leave Medicare recipients to whimsy of private insurers who would choose whom to insure.

Immigration:Immigration is a hotly con-

tested issue. The DREAM (Develop-

ment, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act favored by Democrats is more humane and is consistent with long standing immigration policies. Republi-cans want to hunt down any one looking “foreign” asking proof of residency.

IntegrityDespite all the policy differ-

ences the issue of integrity and honesty is paramount. Obama has admitted that he did not ac-complish all he had promised four years ago. In fact there has not been a single president who can claim to have accomplished everything he had promised as a politician. But Obama sounds more credible than Mitt Romney. Romney’s infamous 47 percent comments behind the closed door is a living testimony that he is not an honest man. He says some-thing and does something else. We deserve to be assured that we have a president who is not de-ceiving us.

These are the major differ-ences on important issues.

Our votes are precious. Com-placency has no place in a vibrant community. If we want to uphold our religious liberties and dignity then it is the duty of each and ev-ery individual to exercise their vote.

Let the politicians know that we do vote and our votes are cru-cial in making a difference. This will help bring a change in politi-cian’s perception of the commu-nity. It will also help change the perception of Muslim worldwide and will go a long way in counter-ing the prevailing Islamophobia.

Reviewing the stand of both presidential candidates on ma-jor issues, we endorse President Barack Obama.

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this year. This is the time when we give meat to the poor. Much more useful than a pumpkin, a freezer full of meat would indeed help guarantee survival to any family worried about the coming winter. Perhaps there could be a way to create an interfaith activity combining the concerns of Eid ul-Adha and Halloween? For those interested in gore, a visit to the lo-cal slaughterhouse might be more than appropriate!

Islam could play a role in easing American fears of the supernatural. To a Muslim, our death should be the best day of our lives, because this is the day when we will meet Allah. We spend our lives preparing for that day. We remember death often, not for drama, but for perspective.

I asked the cashiers at Ash-mont Market in Boston for their

opinion on the meaning of Hal-loween in their lives. Two young men, probably in their twen-ties, informed me that, as Irish Catholics growing up in Boston, Halloween was about two things only. Candy - and egging peo-ple’s houses. However, they had no idea where the tradition comes from, of egging people’s houses. I laughed and said in Detroit, Halloween was all about setting things on fire! They mentioned All Saint’s Day as being the of-ficial Catholic holiday, but they had never visited a cemetery nor did anything other than get the day off school.

November 2 is a huge holiday called “Day of the Dead” in Mex-ico, while October 30 is called “Devils Night” in the American Midwest, and “Mischief Night” in England. So basically, Halow-een is a four day international hol-iday celebrating and mocking the fear of death. Halloween has re-

Halloweenfrom pg 3

placed Christmas as the ultimate secular holiday that brings neigh-bors together, that causes people to knock on each others’ doors. The love of candy has surpassed the love of Christ, but really it’s the same concept of connecting with people on the ancient level of survival: sharing food. Ameri-cans hang “Indian Corn” on their

doors during the autumn season. Marketed as purely decorative, this tradition points to the fact that ancient Americans used to worship corn as life itself.

While we are alive, we prove our holiness or holy aspirations by loving our neighbor, while try-ing to balance others’ needs with our own legitimate requirements.

We are possessed with the power to notice, or not to notice, the needs and feelings of those peo-ple around us. Now and then, we may have to knock on a door to inquire whether or not our neigh-bor is doing fine. Because some-times, our neighbor might not be doing fine.

Although the Taliban were ousted from Swat in 2009, but Malala’s role as a young cam-paigner for girls’ education meant that she will receive death threats. That day finally came when she was attacked last week as she was returning home from school in the town of Mingora.. Two armed men stopped the van she was trav-eling in. One of them entered the vehicle, asked which of the girls inside was Malala, and fired three shots, hitting her in the head and

wounding two others. The bullet that went into her skull had to be removed from close to her spinal cord. A Taliban spokesman, Ehsa-nullah Ehsan, confirmed by phone that Malala had been the target, calling her crusade for education rights an “obscenity.” Mr. Ehsan further said, that if she survived, the militants would certainly try to kill her again. “Let this be a lesson.” He said that the decision to assassinate Malala was unani-mous and had been reached in ac-cordance with Islamic law.

Pakistanis have been holding

protests march and candlelit vig-ils in all the Cities and towns of Pakistan angered by the Taliban’s shooting. Taliban have killed thousands of people in Pakistan over the last five years and de-stroyed several thousand schools, both in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A commentator on GEO news of Pakistan said that it misnomer to call them Taliban, there new name should be Zaleman (One who perpetuates the terror) If this cancer is not treated on time it might destroy Pakistan. [email protected]

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