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Financial Dealings:
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Financial transactions whether clandestine or transparent are part of our everyday life. They also permeate our spirituality.
The Muslim AIDS Programme has an initiative for the protection of orphaned and vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS.
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Mufti Muhammad Taqi Uthmani of Pakistan is a prolific writer and an eminent scholar of our time. We look at his life and work.
VOL 10 NO. 2 Jumâdal Ûkhrâ 1428 July 2007 JAMIATUL ULAMA Established in 1923 as Jamiatul Ulama Transvaal P.O. Box 42863, Fordsburg, 2033 Tel: 011 373 8000 Fax: 011 373 8022 E-Mail: jamiat@islamsa.org.za URL: http://www.islamsa.org.za
Ar-Rasheed End the Occupation of
PALESTINE
Masjid Al-Ibrahimi, Al-Khalil City, Occupied Palestine
outh Africans have once again re-affirmed their support and commitment to the struggle of Palestinians for freedom. A line up of events held around the country recently have borne testimony to this. These events were part of a Programme of Action to show solidarity with the people Palestine who are living under Israel’s illegal occupation since the end of the 1967Arab-Israeli War. Read Full story on Page 2.
Ulama Lose a Fountain of Wisdom and Guidance
The Cold War on Islam Co-opting ‘Moderate’ Muslims
he Rand Corporation, a reactionary and influential US think-tank, recently published a report entitled, ‘Building Moderate Muslim Networks’ (2007). This report re-states the oft repeated mantra of how extremism in Islam poses the gravest threat to the West. The policy question this report grapples with is: how best to engage with, influence, and co-opt “moderate Muslims” into programmes funded by the US government. The report suggests that lessons should be taken from the Cold War, when the USA funded and assisted ‘liberal networks’ to counter the political influence of the Soviet Union in the Eastern Block and other regions of the world. The report goes into great detail to ascertain what lessons the USA can learn from the Cold War, and how best to promote Islamic moderates around the world today.
The Rand Corporation, has published two major reports on strategies the USA could adopt in its interaction with Muslims. The first, published in 2003, and the most recent one published in this oulana Mohammed Cassim Sema (May Allah fill his grave year, lays the foundation for major US with His abiding nûr) was born on 12th May 1920. He government funded interventions to change, and completed his junior primary schooling at the St. Oswalds influence the thinking, faith, and attitudes of School in Newcastle and left for India in 1935 to pursue his dream of Muslims. becoming anAalim. Drawing on the experience of the Cold War, the a n e m e rg e n c y m e a s u r e a report highlights the grand strategy the USA He enrolled at Jamiah Islamiah steamboat named “Tilawa” was adopted during the Cold War. In doing this the Dabel where he pursued his especially chartered to transport Rand Corporation is, unwittingly or not, studies with distinction. He was passengers to various parts of promoting one of the largest politically inspired blessed to have sat at the feet of Africa. On 23rd November 1942 programs of social engineering since the end of some luminaries among whom Moulana left India onboard the the Cold War. The mere fact that Islam is targeted were Moulana Yusuf Binnouri “Tilawa” hoping to return to the in such a cold political-strategic manner, means and Moulana Badre 'Alam. shores of South Africa. After five that no-one can get away from the fact that Islam Miraculous Rescue days of journey a Japanese has become the main ideological counterpoint submarine torpedoed the ship (and implicit enemy) of the West led by the USA. Moulana graduated in 1942 at the which killed majority of the This is the reason why the Rand Corporation age of twenty three during the passengers. Read Full story on Page 15. advocates a Cold War style strategy to infiltrate,4 period of Second World War. As