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Issue 83
Igniting the Spirit of Islam
Nov 2010
recorded especially in Uzbekistan. While even the non-Muslim world acknowledges the torture to which Muslims (termed Islamists) are being subjected by the US especially, largely ignored is the fact that Muslims who wish to live according to Islamic values are imprisoned, tortured and killed in other prisons run by governments claiming to be Muslim in Muslim lands. Here is a brief insight: EGYPT: By 1996 close to 20,000 Islamists were held in Egypt’s prisons. In 1996 alone 30 prisoners died from ill-treatment or torture. The Egyptian Organisation of Human Rights produced convincing evidence that whipping naked prisoners is carried out routinely. Food is infested with insects and distributed in dirty buckets. For more than two years, inmates of the Tora complex were deprived of
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visits from relatives. At state security offices in Cairo Islamists are regularly tortured with electricity. (The Independent) TUNISIA: Government carries out regular arrests of Islamists and torture during interrogation is common according to Amnesty International. Many are subjected to harsh prison conditions, including prolonged solitary confinement and illtreatment. Among the tactics used by police to make life difficult for released prisoners is intimidating prospective employers to discourage them from hiring. (Human Rights Watch) CENTRAL ASIA: Countries like Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan all have Islamists in their jails. Documented cases of extreme torture and death have been
SYRIA: Unarmed Islamist prisoners protesting torture were shot to death at Sednaya Prison in 2008. The Syrian government has a long history of brutality against Islamists: In 1982 the army carried out the Hama Massacre to crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. 40,000 were killed and the city destroyed. This is the tip of the iceberg. Muslims wishing to live according to Islam are suffering in the jails of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Bangladesh, Libya and nearly every Muslim country. Among the signs of the Last Day is that the man who remains steadfast on Islam will be like one who holds a burning coal in his hand, and there will be many police to back the tyrants.
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