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[ALOCHONA] Help your elderly parents walk, dance and exercise with this simple, low-cost nutrient



Help your elderly parents walk, dance and exercise with this simple, low-cost nutrient
 
NaturalNews) Researchers from Wake Forest University (WFU) in North Carolina recently completed a study on the physical health of seniors in relation to their vitamin D levels. The study revealed that seniors with the highest vitamin D levels had far better mobility and physical health than those with the lowest levels.

Presented at the American Society for Nutrition at Experimental Biology 2010, the study is just one of many recent vitamin D studies illustrating the fact that the vitamin has powerful health-promoting and disease-preventing capabilities.

Dr. Denise Houston and her colleagues at WFU evaluated over 2,700 healthy
seniors from Memphis and Pittsburgh over the course of four years. The team analyzed blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, the precursor of vitamin D, and found that those folks with the highest levels could walk faster, move more easily, and remain better balanced, than those with the lowest levels.

A similar study conducted earlier in the year by researchers from the University of Sydney, found that
elderly folks who supplement with vitamin D are less likely to fall than those who do not.

Since vitamin D plays an important role in bone
health and strength, it is believed that this crucial nutrient greatly improves health and quality of life, particularly in older people.

Vitamin D works to protect the body from developing severe degenerative diseases and it also helps to prevent infections, viruses, influenza, colds and other maladies from occurring. It is truly one of the most beneficial and readily-available nutrients around, and keeping your levels high will do wonders for your health.

The best way to maintain healthy vitamin D levels is allow your skin to be exposed to
natural sunlight for 15 to 30 minutes every day. Sunscreens that block the sun's UV rays will prevent your skin from absorbing vitamin D, so it is important not to use them for this purpose.

Exposure to the sun in gradually-increasing amounts will help to acclimate your skin to the sun and to avoid burns. Supplementing with natural
astaxanthin, a natural skin protector and powerful antioxidant found in Hawaiian microalgae, will also help you to be able to get adequate sunlight exposure without damaging your skin.

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Sources for this story include:

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2010...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...


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[ALOCHONA] Ershad rules out any trial against him



Ershad rules out any trial against him


Jatiya Party Chief Hussein Muhammad Ershad has said that no one could make him face trials. "Those who are asking for my trial, has not read the High Court verdict properly" he said.Ershad said this while discussing the High Court's verdict on the 'seventh amendment to the Constitution' with bdnews24.com at his Rangpur residence Sunday noon, following a meeting with the Prime Minister.

Pointing out that the verdict had legalised all the good initiatives during his regime and forgiven the rest, he said, "There is no scope to put me on trial."

On August 26, the High Court declared illegal the 7th amendment that had legitimised the autocratic regime of Ershad. Following the verdict, Ershad met with PM Skeikh Hasina Sunday. Jatiya Party is one of the major allies of the coalition government in power. Jatiya Party presidium members Kazi Firoz Rashid said, "Hussein Muhammad Ershad met the PM and discussed on ways to strengthen the grand alliance."

Meanwhile, talking to UNB eminent jurist Anisul Huq said former President HM Ershad could be brought to justice under the Army Act 1952 on charges of 'mutiny and insubordination', as the military ruler usurped power overthrowing the President, the supreme commander of the defence services of Bangladesh.

The offence (mutiny and insubordination), under Section 31 of the Army Act, was punishable by death, he added.Mr Huq, a senior lawyer who specialises in criminal law, said that the higher courts' judgments on the 5th and 7th amendments of the Constitution that declared illegal the promulgation of martial law, made an identical observation that the military usurpers should be suitably punished.

The parliament may enact a law in this regard, he added, referring to the apex court judgments. As to how Ershad can be put on the dock, Anisul said neither the Constitution nor the existing Penal Code provided for this.There is no specific provision under the Penal Code to try and punish a military usurper.

 http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=110710&date=2010-08-31



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[ALOCHONA] Cases are withdrawn on political consideration



Cases are withdrawn on political consideration
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Fwd: [Dahuk]: DU Pro-VC accused of patronizing irregular appointments





---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shimul Chaudhury <honestdebater@yahoo.ca>
Date: Aug 30, 2010 6:46 AM
Subject: [Dahuk]: DU Pro-VC accused of patronizing irregular appointments
To:

 

The New Nation, Dhaka, August 30, 2010

http://www.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/08/30/news0999.htm

DU Pro-VC accused of patronizing irregular appointments


DU Correspondent


Dhaka University (DU) Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Harun-or-Rashid himself was explicitly patronising an unprecedented irregularity in recruiting teachers in the university.

The malpractice was done in the meeting of the Selection Committee for recruiting lecturers in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology under the faculty of Engineering and Technology yesterday.

Sources said applications were called for six vacant posts (three permanent and three temporary) of lecturer in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology recently.

According to the process, the Selection Committee, headed by the Pro-VC Harun-or-Rashid with four other members - Dean of the concerned faculty Prof Shahida Rafiq, chairperson of the department Syed M Shamsuddin, and two experts Prof Mahbubar Rahman and Prof Ahmed Ismail Mostafa of the same department - sat yesterday for selecting the more qualified candidates for the posts.

The permanent three posts were filled up by the candidates who were in the top three positions considering their results in honours' and masters' level examinations and their publications at home and abroad.

But the irregularity was done in the selection of three temporary posts where candidates who have 1st class 1st and 2nd positions in honours and masters' examinations have been rejected and those who have secured 6th or 7th positions in the same examinations have been selected denying the opposition of two members of the Selection Committee.

The selected three candidates are Mithun Sarkar, Sumaiya Farhana and Taslima Ferdaus.

Mithun's merit positions in honours and masters examinations were 3rd and 2nd respectively while Sumaiya's positions were 7th and 1st and Taslima's positions were 4th and 6th in honours and masters examinations respectively.

On the other hand, Kazi Tanimul Haque Shuvra, Mohammad Shahruzzaman and Nashid Sharif have been rejected while their merit positions in the honours and masters examinations were 2nd & 2nd, 1st & 2nd and 2nd & 2nd respectively.

Of them, Mohammad Shahruzzaman is the highest marks scorer in honours examination among the candidates applied for. He achieved 2208 marks in the examination. Nashid's total marks in honours exams were 2203 and Tanimul's were 2188. But the marks of the three selected candidates Mithun, Sumaiya and Taslima were 2064, 2087 and 2088 respectively.

The rejected candidates were also clearly ahead by the number of publications at home and abroad than the selected candidates.

Sources said the biased selection was made by the direct interference of the Pro-VC Prof Harun-or-Rashid though the two members of the committee, dean of the faculty Prof Shahida Rafiq and one of the two expert teachers Prof Mahbubar Rahman opposed it.

At one stage, Prof Shahida Rafiq walked out from the meeting protesting the partial role of Pro-VC in the selection.

She told reporters at a press conference at her office "The Pro-VC showed blind partiality to the less qualified candidates just considering their political views and he made injustice to the candidates who have much more qualifications than the selected,"

Prof Shahida Rafiq termed the biased selection as unprecedented in the history of Dhaka University.

She further said that two of selected candidates could not answer the simple questions in the viva voce. Their only qualification is their political identity, she added.

"Such kind of political fanaticism in higher educational institutions are destroying the future of the nation," she opined.




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[ALOCHONA] Loan from Delhi raisesbillion dollar questions

Okay, okay, we will make sure this loans serves your pocket also.

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Loan from Delhi raisesbillion dollar questions
>
> *M. Shahidul Islam*
>
> The $1 billion loan agreement signed with India on August 7 begets some
> billion dollar questions: Whose interest will it serve and whether the fund
> was at all needed. Cynicism has exacerbated by the loan coming at a time
> when it is least needed; over $500 million of ADB, IMF and other
> source-loans lying idle in the government's coffer.
> Decoding the mindset of policy makers in Dhaka and Delhi has become a
> futile exercise since the coming to power of the AL-led regime in early
> 2009. While any definitive answers to such questions will remain unanswered
> for obvious reasons, a glance at the targeted projects where the borrowed
> money will be spent may provide some valuable clues to unearthing the real
> motive behind this unprecedented economic collaboration between the two
> South Asian neighbours.
>
> *Whose interest?*
> Of the 14 projects for which the predominance of the borrowed $1 billion
> is slated for spending, over 76 per cent of the fund is earmarked for the
> (1) construction of Ashugonj port and dredging of navigation route leading
> to Tripura border, (2) upgrading of railway tracks and purchase of railway
> locomotives and oil tankers to transport Indian goods across the border, (3)
> construction of bridges astride Indo-Bangladesh border, including over the
> Bhairab and the Feni river connection Tripura, (4) construction of
> Ramgar-Subrom land port and the connecting roads, and, (5) construction of
> Bheramara-Bahrampur 400 KV inter- connected lines at a cost of $150 million,
> to name but a few.
> The agreement stipulates that the pipeline projects must incur 85 per
> cent of the costs by procuring goods and services from India only, and, the
> consultants hired for advising must be from India too. That alone will
> divert back 90 per cent of the fund to India. Add to this .50 per cent
> penalty for non-completion of any project, 1.75 per cent annual interest and
> .5 percent commitment fee per annum. The entire venture has little or no
> value added dividend for Bangladesh, excepting an estimated $25 million or
> so that is expected to come annually from custom fee and the allied levies
> that are yet to be decided.
>
> Simply put: Delhi will plan, fund and complete all these strategically
> important projects inside Bangladesh with materials from India, to serve
> India's interest, while the cost incurred is a loan to Bangladesh which the
> country may not be able to pay off within the stipulated 20 years time
> frame. Besides, the loan's conditionality is so stringent that the negation
> of any future government to comply with the projects' completion will not
> absolve the nation from paying the interests and the penalties during the 20
> years amortization period.
>
> As well, the 1.75 per cent interest is too high, compared with the loan
> transactions occurring at public and private levels anywhere in the world;
> due to the recession-battered prime landing rate being either zero, or at
> best one per cent in the leading economies of the world. More disturbing is
> the 20 years payment deadline, which covers only half of the payment
> time-line usually offered by major international financial institutions
> while the stipulated interest rate is seven times of what the IMF loan
> charges, .25 per cent at best.
>
> *Why policy- shift?*
> Despite that, our finance minister is on record for accusing the
> opposition BNP of lying, as the latter insisted on not to sign the loan
> accord in consideration of upholding national interest. The gala and the
> glittering of the signing ceremony had also dwarfed the potential of an
> economic and geopolitical disaster this particular loan is sure to bring
> upon our nation.
>
> The finance minister is not alone in touting the issue as an epoch -
> making economic bonanza. Prior to Dhaka consenting to inking the agreement,
> few in the nation took pain to study the economic and the arithmetical
> rationale for doing so, especially at a time when the decision to borrow
> from external sources marked a radical shift from existing policies which
> proved successful over the decades by reducing debt-dependency on external
> sources, often phenomenally.
>
> We also feel numb as none among the policy makers even bothered to ask,
> why Dhaka needed $1 billion credit from India when its debt-GDP ratio stood
> at all time high, over 32 per cent of the GDP, or well over $50 billion, of
> which public debt alone rose by over $2 billion since the coming to office
> of the AL-led regime in late 2008 (Source: CIA fact sheet). Bangladesh bank
> data also reveals, total government borrowing was Tk. 597.9 billion in FY
> 2007, out of which Tk. 522.0 billion (87 percent) came from domestic sources
> while the net flow of public borrowing from external sources remained nearly
> stagnant in FY06-07, and declined further subsequently.
>
> *Deadly geopolitics*
> Such compelling economic rationales aside, India's generosity remains
> questionable; the loan coming to Dhaka at a time when India itself is
> bleeding under a slew of catastrophic afflictions spurred by a lingering
> recession, accelerated centrifugal drives spearheaded by insurgents from
> Kashmir to Mizoram to Assam, and the widespread public discontent created by
> a combustive mix of mass unemployment and hyper inflation which Delhi seems
> totally unable to tackle.
> Some observers say, this is hardly a micro-managed regional bonhomie to
> bolster fraternity with a smaller neighbour in crisis. Faced with
> unprecedented domestic crisis, Delhi had to display some geopolitical
> acrobatics to deflect attention outward and the scheme fitted neatly with a
> Machiavellian design to turn Bangladesh into an economic and military
> hinterland that has been in the making since Delhi decided to join the
> US-led anti terror bandwagon in 2001.
> They say, ever since, Delhi has been on the driving seat in Dhaka while
> irritating silence and procrastination remained our national hallmark amidst
> the gradual but systematic enfeebling of the nation by (1) rendering the
> armed forces impotent, and, (2) bludgeoning the economy through orchestrated
> destruction of the main export sector, the RMG.
>
> This line of analysis jibes well with the desperation Delhi felt lately
> as it witnessed, helplessly, Nepal turning into a Maoist state, Sri Lanka
> drifting away toward China and the Pakistani success in checkmating Delhi in
> Afghanistan amidst successive Taliban victory in the battles against the
> India-allied NATO forces. They say as most of the earmarked projects involve
> land and marine connectivity between India's north east with the mainland
> via Bangladesh, our nation is being turned into a virtual India corridor.
> This constitutes serious compromises of our territorial integrity and
> sovereignty.
>
> http://www.weeklyholiday.net/front.html#02
>


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RE: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court



            Many people think that secularism is a grey (as opposed to the 'black' of the burqa) burlap sack that you can whack over a person's head.
 
           A black burqa is a very good thing for Muslims, they say. 
          It can put a ink-blot over the person's existence and obliterate the person's humanity. That is supposedly a very Islamic thing to do,
          though there is no Qur'anic injunction or dress-code for the purpose of blotting out the humanity of a person.
 
             This grey burlap sack called secularism, they say, is an evil thing that can be 'imposed' and can make you look like
             the devil incarnate otherwise known as Hindu. This sack is rumored to be outfitted with a devilish mechanism
             that can make the whole religion of Islam disappear from the realm in a twinkle of an eye!
 
             They also say that this devil incarnate Hindu should be eliminated from the land by any means. The means
             may take the form of mass murder but if that is what it takes to do the job there should not be any hesitation .  
             Anybody showing tendencies like a Hindu should be eliminated. This Hindu Hasina should take heed. Her father was wiped out.
              "Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father"?

Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father?

              However, the people who speak in the above language have not been able to provide a sample of the grey burlap sack
               called secularism that can be 'imposed' over people's head and that can make Islam disappear in a twinkle of an eye.
 
              Until they do, we have the Holy Qur'an to turn to for guidance, solace and fortitude. In this holy month of Ramadan,
               time for penance and self-purification, we should recognize that the above talk is itself a kind of 'covering' or clothing
              or 'lebas'.  And the Qur'an warns us to be wary of these attempts at falsehoods:
 
               "Wa la talbisu al Huqqa bi-l batili wa taktumoo ul Huqqa wa antum taAlamuna"  2:42.
               (And cover not Truth with falsehood, nor coceal the Truth when ye know whar it is)
             
              For those who want be sure that there is no Qur'anic mandate for women to wear the burqa or the hijab,
              please read the following article which was published in the Daily Star, and then archived by the Islamic
              Reasearch Foundation Information.
 

  • Farida Majid As the hijab issue heats up in France and Germany, and the psychological pressure and the brainwashing of women intensifies all over the Muslim world, the feverish ...
    irfi.org/articles/articles_201_250/fashioning_lies.htm · Cached page

     

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: qrahman@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:38:27 -0400
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court

 
I think burqa should not be forced but the new law does not have some "Common sense" exceptions. For Islamic institutions "Islamic" dress should be enforced (That may include Burqa if the local community feels right about it). Albeit there are difference of opinion among scholars if Burqa is mandatory in Islam or not. Most scholars think "Hijab" covers Islamic requirements for women.

While I agree Burqa should not be forced but secularism should not be forced on our people either. Maybe  experts should be looking into the verdict more to ensure some "Activist" judges going overboard or not. There are some concerns from liberal groups about civil rights in another ruling regarding Shaheed minar.

Personally I feel that, God created us as "FREE" men and women and gave us freedom to obey or disobey Him. Therefore, we should encourage honest and open discussions/debates about religion. Blaming everything Islamic TODAY for what some Jamaat-e-Islami leaders did 40 years ago does not seem fair or logical to me.

Peace.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mo Assghar <moassghar@yahoo.com>
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 9:02 am
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court

 
But Secularism can be forced? Give me a break!!

Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father?


--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court
To:
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 2:36 AM

 
Burqa can't be forced: High Court

 
The court also ordered relevant officials to explain why forcing girls to wear burqa (veil) and keeping them out of sports and cultural activities were illegal.


Dhaka, Aug 22 (bdnews24.com)—The High Court has ruled that no women can be forced to wear burqa at work and educational institutions. In it's ruling The High Court on Sunday in a suo moto order directed the government to ensure that no women were forced to wear veil or religious dress in the educational institutions and offices.

The court also ordered the government to ensure that the cultural activities and sports in the educational institutions are not restricted.The orders came in the wake of a public interest petition filed by Supreme Court lawyers Mahbub Shafi and A K M Hafizul Alam on Sunday. The bench of justices A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain also ruled that they cannot be barred from taking to culture and sports

The court also ordered relevant officials to explain why forcing girls to wear burqa (veil) and keeping them out of sports and cultural activities were illegal.

The A Bengali daily news item said that principal of the college in Natore ( Northern Bangladesh ) has stopped any cultural activities and sports at the college and forced female students to wear Borka or veil in the college.The HC also directed principal of the college Mozammel Haque to appear before the HC bench on August 26 to explain the matter.

It also issued a rule upon the government to explain why imposition of restriction on cultural activities and sports in the educational institutions and offices and forcing the female students to wear veil should not be declared illegal.

Secretaries to the ministries of home, education, social welfare and women affair and principal Mozammel Haque has been made respondent to the rule and orderThe education, home, social welfare, and women and children affairs secretaries and principal of Rani Bhabani Mohila College Mozammel Huq were asked to reply to ruling. Following a brief hearing, the court also asked the principal to appear before it on Aug 26.

The lawyers in their petition on Sunday cited a report carried by a Bengali newspaper the same day headlined, 'Burqa mandatory at Rani Bhabani Mohila College'. The lawyers stated such enforcement was discriminatory.




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RE: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court



Mo Assghar wrote,

 

'Did not Hindu Hasina learn anything from her Father?'

 

What a solidly stupid comment. Not surprised, we can't expect reason from an ignorant and dogmatic person. He must know that when religion is governed by thugs, civilised nation should regulate and stop them. A 7th century pagan Arab culture can't be a part of any faith.

 

           

Akbar Hussain



 

 




To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: qrahman@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:38:27 -0400
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court

 
I think burqa should not be forced but the new law does not have some "Common sense" exceptions. For Islamic institutions "Islamic" dress should be enforced (That may include Burqa if the local community feels right about it). Albeit there are difference of opinion among scholars if Burqa is mandatory in Islam or not. Most scholars think "Hijab" covers Islamic requirements for women.

While I agree Burqa should not be forced but secularism should not be forced on our people either. Maybe  experts should be looking into the verdict more to ensure some "Activist" judges going overboard or not. There are some concerns from liberal groups about civil rights in another ruling regarding Shaheed minar.

Personally I feel that, God created us as "FREE" men and women and gave us freedom to obey or disobey Him. Therefore, we should encourage honest and open discussions/debates about religion. Blaming everything Islamic TODAY for what some Jamaat-e-Islami leaders did 40 years ago does not seem fair or logical to me.

Peace.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mo Assghar <moassghar@yahoo.com>
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 9:02 am
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court

 
But Secularism can be forced? Give me a break!!

Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father?


--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Burqa can't be forced: High Court
To:
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 2:36 AM

 
Burqa can't be forced: High Court

 
The court also ordered relevant officials to explain why forcing girls to wear burqa (veil) and keeping them out of sports and cultural activities were illegal.


Dhaka, Aug 22 (bdnews24.com)—The High Court has ruled that no women can be forced to wear burqa at work and educational institutions. In it's ruling The High Court on Sunday in a suo moto order directed the government to ensure that no women were forced to wear veil or religious dress in the educational institutions and offices.

The court also ordered the government to ensure that the cultural activities and sports in the educational institutions are not restricted.The orders came in the wake of a public interest petition filed by Supreme Court lawyers Mahbub Shafi and A K M Hafizul Alam on Sunday. The bench of justices A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain also ruled that they cannot be barred from taking to culture and sports

The court also ordered relevant officials to explain why forcing girls to wear burqa (veil) and keeping them out of sports and cultural activities were illegal.

The A Bengali daily news item said that principal of the college in Natore ( Northern Bangladesh ) has stopped any cultural activities and sports at the college and forced female students to wear Borka or veil in the college.The HC also directed principal of the college Mozammel Haque to appear before the HC bench on August 26 to explain the matter.

It also issued a rule upon the government to explain why imposition of restriction on cultural activities and sports in the educational institutions and offices and forcing the female students to wear veil should not be declared illegal.

Secretaries to the ministries of home, education, social welfare and women affair and principal Mozammel Haque has been made respondent to the rule and orderThe education, home, social welfare, and women and children affairs secretaries and principal of Rani Bhabani Mohila College Mozammel Huq were asked to reply to ruling. Following a brief hearing, the court also asked the principal to appear before it on Aug 26.

The lawyers in their petition on Sunday cited a report carried by a Bengali newspaper the same day headlined, 'Burqa mandatory at Rani Bhabani Mohila College'. The lawyers stated such enforcement was discriminatory.




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RE: [ALOCHONA] Identifying a Muslim



Thanks for this good writing.
 
Iqbal


Dr. Shahriar Iqbal
Kellerberrin, WA
Australia



 

From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:24:50 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Identifying a Muslim

 

Identifying a Muslim

 

Javed Ahmad

 

Honestly, I feel happy when I hear or see someone accepting Islam. It is not because his or her joining Islam is adding to the number and strength of the Muslim community, but because on the feeling that he or she have reverted to the original faith and religion when he or she was at the time of birth.

 

Narrated Ibn Shihab: The funeral prayer should be offered for every child even if he were the son of a prostitute as he was born with a true faith of Islam (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone). If his parents are Muslims, particularly the father, even if his mother were a non−Muslim, and if he after the delivery cries (even once) before his death (i.e. born alive) then the funeral prayer must be offered. And if the child does not cry after his delivery (i.e. born dead) then his funeral prayer should not be offered, and he will be considered as a miscarriage. Abu Huraira, narrated that the Prophet said, "Every child is born with a true faith (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone) but his parents convert him to Judaism or to Christianity or to Magainism, as an animal delivers a perfect baby animal. Do you find it mutilated?" Then Abu Huraira recited the holy verses: 'The pure Allah's Islamic nature (true faith i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone), with which He has created human beings.' " (30.30). (Bukhari 2.440).

 

According to Islam, all humans are born Muslims; it is the environment and the culture of the parents that shapes a human to grow believing something else. Since none of us have any hand or control on our birth and death, we totally rely on Allah's decision on where and how one would be born and die. Therefore, we are totally dependent on Allah's will whether one would become a Muslim or die in Islam or not.

 

"It is He Who has created you; and of you are some that are Unbelievers, and

some that are Believers: and God sees well all that ye do." (Qur'an 64:2).

 

Narrated Muawiya: I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "If Allah wants to do good to a person, He makes him comprehend the religion. I am just a distributor, but the grant is from Allah. (And remember) that this nation (true Muslims) will keep on following Allah's teachings strictly and they will not be harmed by any one going on a different path till Allah's order (Day of Judgment) is established." (Bukhari 1.71).

 

Islam is a gift to an individual from Allah. It can come to a person at any time of his or her life or never come at all! On the other hand, there are many who go out of the fold of Islam as well for whatever reason. So you see, there is no guarantee that one would become a Muslim and remain a Muslims till end.

 

"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error:

whoever rejects evil and believes in God hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-

hold, that never breaks. And God heareth and knoweth all things." (Qur'an 2:256).

 

I got motivated to write this paper due to the present world wide hype and rumors on 'Obama being a Muslim', 'Prayer room open to Muslims at the Pentagon', 'A masjid to be build at ground zero', 'Muslim prayer led by female imam in NY', etc. So you see, Islam is now in a hot bed, especially in the USA.

 

Rumors of renowned Americans accepting Islam is nothing new. There has been a rumor for many years on Neil Armstrong – the Apollo 11 NASA astronaut being a Muslims after witnessing the crack mark on the Moon that points to the miracle performed by Prophet (S) dividing the moon by the sign of his two fingers. But this rumor turned out to be untrue as the astronaut denied reverting to Islam while the crack line on the moon is still there.

 

Then again we have heard the rumor about Elvis Presley accepting Islam! That too turned out to be untrue and we longer have any recourse to verify it as he is no longer alive. Then the heavy weight boxing champion Casius Clay accepted Islam and became Muhammad Ali, and that is true because he openly and bravely acknowledged it.

 

The British pop singer Cat Steven accepted Islam and became Yusuf Islam that is true; but when Michael Jackson accepted Islam that was kept a secret and still a matter of hush even after his death. His brother Jerome Jackson is however a Muslim.

 

If a person like President Obama of the United States is truly a Muslim then it is a matter of interest to the world. But the question is, is he?

 

In order to become a Muslim and remain a Muslim one need to fulfill some conditions of Islam. First and foremost is declaration of faith, which is "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." This is one of the five pillars of Islam. The other pillars are: Establishing regular prayers (Salat), compulsory fasting in the Islamic month of Ramadan (Siam), contributing annual alms (Zakat) and pilgrimage to makkah at least once in a lifetime if health and means permits (Hajj). And of course, there are other do's and don'ts, but to keep our discussion plain and simple we need not go into details of Islamic faith. The test of five pillars of Islam will do.

 

Now to solve the mystery of Obama whether he is a Muslim or not we could verify by asking the followings questions:

 

  1. Does he believe in Allah and His messenger Muhammad?
  2. Does he offer the five daily prayers?
  3. Does he fast in the month of Ramadan?
  4. Does he pay 2.5% alms from his savings of wealth to the poor Muslims annually?
  5. Does he have any intention to perform hajj?

 

Not just Obama, these questions could be posed at anyone who claims or suspected to be a Muslim. A Muslim would say 'yes' to all of the questions above. Some however may not have 100% marks on this test, but could still be a Muslim, but at a lower faith level.

 

There are many individuals who think of themselves a Muslim whereas they never fulfill any of the above requirements. All they have is a Muslim sounding name composed with some Arabic words of which the meaning is also unknown to them. No matter what they think, the Qur'an has a term 'hypocrite' for them. Therefore, a hypocrite is not a Muslim.

 

"The Hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire: no helper wilt thou find for them;- Except for those who repent, mend (their lives) hold fast to God, and purify their religion as in God's sight: if so they will be (numbered) with the believers. And soon will God grant to the believers a reward of immense value. What can God gain by your punishment, if ye are grateful and ye believe? Nay, it is God that recogniseth (all good), and knoweth all things." (Qur'an 4:145-147).

 

For a hypocrite to return to Islam he or she must sincerely 'repent'; which means they have a way out if they want one. In the case of hypocrites, they have the knowledge of Islam only the faith or belief is missing. So, it is relatively easy for them to return just by saying "sorry, I won't do it again" to Allah.

 

The best way to solve the riddle would be just by simply asking Obama if he is a Muslim or not. As far as I am concerned, Obama is not going to pass the above test to qualify himself as a Muslim. Because there is no news about his observance of any of the five tenets of Islam discussed above. Therefore, the Americans need not worry.

 

His support for establishing a masjid at Ground Zero is basically a distraction and has some hidden political motive just like the Pentagon's news on allowing the Muslims to offer prayer at their prayer room closed to the area that was hit by a missile on 9-11-2001. What I find alarming though is that what are the 'Muslim terrorists' doing in Pentagon! Never mind praying!?

 

Now here comes the most terrible and disgusting part. There are some people who would pass the above exam with colors, but yet they are not Muslims! Yes, you guessed it right if you are thinking they are the 'hypocrites'. Believe it or not, like it or not, there are some 'Muslims' who offers prayers for a 'show' not really believing in Islam. They use Islam to draw support and sympathy from the unsuspecting Muslims for their own personal or political gain and advantages.

 

Take the news "Woman leads US Muslims to prayer" for instance. What this group of people is actually doing is creating a 'sect of Muslims' as per their own liking and interpretations. This group is nothing but another sect among others with a minority followings. The stand point on sects is clear in Islam –

 

"As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou hast no

part in them in the least: their affair is with God: He will in the end tell them the truth of all that they did." (Qur'an 6:159).

 

Parallel hadith –

 

"My Ummah will be fragmented into seventy-three (73) sects. All of them will be in Hell Fire except one sect. They (the Companions) said: Allah's Messenger, which is that? Whereupon he said: It is one to which I and my companions belong". (Tirmidhi. 171)

 

Therefore, deviation from the original teachings of Islam Is not permitted. Anyone who does so would be in a risk of being an outcast.

 

This new sect that follows a woman as an imam has no support from any Islamic references. They are just following their own whims and desires. Like any other world religions, a woman cannot take a leading role in religious activities or rituals. There are no female rabbis, there are no female priests, and there should not be a female Imam either. Never in the Islamic history there was a female imam approved by Islam.

 

If anyone wants to create a new religion similar or close to Islam then it is better that they give it a name to avoid confusion with Islam and Muslims. So that we would know clearly who they are and what they do and believe in. For instance, we have Shikism, which is an off shoot of Islam, but not Islam. And then we have Bahai faith that is also an off shoot of Islam, but not Islam, etc. No need to pull the legs of Islam and Muslims, choose a name for your new religion and leave Islam alone.

 

"The people of the Book" (meaning the Jews and Christians) have done the same with their religion and corrupted their books, as a result their religion became invalid-

 

"Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say: "This is from God," to traffic with it for miserable price!- Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby." (Qur'an 2:79).

 

But this is not possible with the Qur'an as Allah Himself has taken the responsibility of safeguarding the book from any form of corruption simply because Islam is the last and final divine religion for mankind-

 

"We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption)." (Qur'an 15:9).

 

"…This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. But if any is forced by hunger, with no inclination to transgression, Allah is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful." (Qur'an 5:3).

 

Finally, my honest and sincere suggestion- Do not take up war against Allah when He expressed His desire clearly –

 

"Not your desires, nor those of the People of the Book (can prevail): whoever

works evil, will be requited accordingly. Nor will he find, besides God, any protector or helper." (Qur'an 4:123).

 

Instead, come let us join hands in peace (literal meaning of Islam) and live together as true Muslims in this temporal world that we would leave behind to enter an eternal life hereafter. Welcome to genuine Islam! The religion chosen by God and the religion of all the past Prophets before Muhammad - peace be upon them all.

 

References:

 

Barack Obama believed to be a Muslim by one fifth of Americans: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/19/barack-obama-muslim-american-public

 

Obama seeks 'new beginning' with Muslim world: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jun/04/obama-egypt-muslim

 

Barack Obama in Cairo: the speech no other president could make: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/04/barack-obama-speech-islam-west

 

Poll finds growing number of Americans think Obama is Muslim: file:///G:/downloads/growing-number-of-americans-call-obama-muslim-in-poll..htm

 

THE MYTH AND THE MOSQUE: http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/the-myth-and-the-mosque/

 

Ground Zero Mosque Imam Is Globalist Stooge: http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2010/08/ground-zero-mosque-imam-is-globalist.html

 

CNN: Muslims Pray Daily At Pentagon: http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201008200012

 

Woman leads US Muslims to prayer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4361931.stm

 

Fox News shareholder funded 'Ground Zero mosque' imam: report: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0821/fox-shareholder-funded-mosque-imam/

 

The CFR-Globalist-Zionist Hegelian Dialectic New York Mosque Conspiracy: http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/2010/08/cfrglobalistzionist-hegelian-dialectic.html




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[ALOCHONA] Nagalim movement grips Northeast India with fresh unrest



Nagalim movement grips Northeast India with fresh unrest

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The Northeast Indian region has been gripped by a fresh spell of violence and tension centring the demand the Nagas for Nagalim or Greater Nagaland curbing out of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh .
   A tense situation has been prevailing along Arunachal-Assam border since India's independence day on August 15 when militants of the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM) raided Saraipung village in eastern Sivasagar district, about 400 km from Assam's capital city of Guwahati.
   The militants set ablaze many houses, demolished an under- construction barrack of Assam police and attacked police pickets in Charaipung and Bimalapur area in Assam. NSCN-IM militants ambushed the convoy of the Sivasagar district police chief Akhilesh Singh last Friday in which two of his security men were injured.
   Meanwhile, normal life has been affected in Manipur and Arunachal due to road blockades separately enforced by the United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body of the Nagas in Manipur and All Assam Students Union (AASU). Press reports said the blockade caused acute shortage of essential items, petroleum products and medicines in the bordering States of Monipur and Arunachal. The indefinite economic blockade against Arunachal Pradesh has been continuing since last Saturday.
   Hundreds of activists of various organisations under the banner of AASU (All Assam Students Union) and Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) have blocked the three different roads connecting Assam with eastern Arunachal Pradesh.
   The United Naga Council (UNC) has been continuing its economic blockade on Imphal-Dimapur- Guwahati NH-39 and Imphal-Jiribam-Silchar NH 53 the highways. UNC has decided to extend its 20-day economic blockade that began on August 4, to 25 more days on two vital highways of Manipur, demanding, among others, lifting of Section 144 CrPC and withdrawal of state security forces from some hill areas. The demands also include institution of a judicial inquiry into the Mao Gate incident on May 6 in which two Naga students were killed. The UNC also demanded the dissolution of the "undemocratically instituted" Autonomous District Councils in the hills.
   Earlier, the All Naga Students Association Manipur (ANSAM) had imposed a 68-day-long blockade following which the UNC called for a 20-day economic blockade.
   Following discussions in Parliament, the Indian Central government has decided to provide security on the highways to ensure movement of goods trucks. Most of the truckers were refusing to ply on NH39 which passes through Nagaland, protesting extortion by militants on the highway.
   
   NAGALIM movement
   Nagaland (Nagalim) is a nation occupying an area of 120,000 sq. km of the Patkai Range at the tri-junction of China, India and Burma. Nagalim was apportioned between India and Burma. The Indian part is subdivided and placed under four different administrative units: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland states. The eastern part under Burma is placed under two administrative units: Kachin State and Sagaing Division (formerly known as the Naga Hills). The area inhabited by the Naga tribes is bounded by the Hukawng Valley in the northeast, the plains of the Brahmaputra Valley in the northwest, Cachar in the southwest and the Chindwin River in the east. In the south, the Manipur Valley marks the point of contact between the Naga tribes and the Kuki tribes.
   The Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) is a Naga nationalist group operating in Northeast India with the aim of establishing a Socialist Christian state in the areas inhabited by the Naga people in Northeast India and Myanmar. NSCN (IM), as the dominant insurgent group in Nagaland has been carrying out an armed struggle to end Indian sovereignty over the Naga people and establish a People's Republic of Nagaland.
   The Nagas have also established their overseas activities to mobilize international support for their causes. One such support group launched in 2003 named as Naga - American Council as a non-partisan organization whose mission is to mobilise support for the Naga people's right of self-determination in India. The Nagas claim that they were never conquered by any outside power, that they declared themselves a modern, independent nation on August 14, 1947, one day prior to the creation of independent India, and that they never consented to be part of the Indian union. This contrasts with other ethnic groups in India that were either historically integrated into what is today India, or willingly joined the union upon independence from Britain - even though some of them today are unhappy and wish to separate from India.
   Traditionally, the southwest districts of Tirap and Changlang, in the proximity of Nagaland, have been a happy hunting ground for both the factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN). While the Khaplang faction (NSCN-K) made its first inroads into the virgin territory in the early 1990s, the NSCN-IM faction soon made its move and carved out separate areas of influence in the district.
   To the Indian government Nagalim is part of India. To the Nagas, however, it has never been a question of separating from India since Nagalim has never been part of it. In their view India is a product of colonial imagination in which Nagalim was never fully integrated.
   According to Thuingaleng Muivah, NSCN General Secretary, "Naga issues are therefore not comparable to other cases in India. They are unique. In order to work out the differences between the government of India and the Nagas, the nature of the case should be acknowledged not in terms of the Indian constitution. Nagalim should have its own competencies."
   NSCN says, the Indian government has a history of contradicting itself by continuing the suppression of the Naga people even though it made numerous promises of stopping violence and withdrawing its armed forces. With recurring incidents of arrests, abductions, disappearances, torture, summary executions, killing of civilians and women being raped, the Nagas are still committed to their cause of self-determination. As Thuingaleng Muivah stated: "I am a Naga, I am not Indian. We are still absolutely committed to finding a solution through peaceful dialogue."
 


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