Umm Muhammad's Blog (143)

Actor, rapper & human rights activist Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def graphically demonstrates a little of what Uncle Sam's untried, un-accused, unsentenced but permanently incarcerated prisoners at Guantanamo Bay & elsewhere undergo every day...  not for the faint of heart.  From the Guardian, where you can find much more real journalistic coverage of the NSA and more.…

Preparing For Ramadan with Al-Habib Umar bin Hafiz (May Allah Preserve Him) said:[1]

“Make sure you end Sha’ban in the best of states, for Allah records the rewards that we will receive and the supererogatory actions that we will perform before Ramadan enters. He also records the bad deeds and the wretchedness of those that will be deprived the blessings of Ramadan.  What will be your state on the last Friday of Sha’ban and the night…

NY MUSLIM LEADERS & ACTIVISTS SUE THE NYPD

“One of the primary objectives of the study is to identify the cleavages and fault lines among sectarian, ethnic,

regional, and national lines, and to assess how these cleavages generate challenges and opportunities for the United States.” – The Rand Corporation

Another excerpt from the Rand study (US Strategy in the Muslim World After 9/11) reads as follows: “Arabs constitute only about 20% of…

14-year-old rape victim Kainat Soomro sentenced to death in Pakistan
http://www.tinyurl.com/l9tkq7g

By John W. Whitehead March 11, 2013

“The war against Bradley Manning is a war against us all.”—Chris Hedges, author and journalist

“I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan are targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.”—Bradley…

Protesters in front of Philippines Consulate denounce treatment of Filipino  workers in the US

Thousands across Mexico demand their government reject permits for GMO  Corn while Monsanto defends their patent on life in U.S. Supreme Court