Headlines:
• Americans’ Attitudes towards Muslims and Arabs Are Getting Worse, Poll Finds
• Billionaire Tells Americans to Prepare for Financial Ruin
• Arab States Support Jewish State against Hamas
• 700 killed in US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Identified
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Americans’ Attitudes towards Muslims and Arabs Are Getting Worse, Poll Finds
Americans were outraged to learn they were being spied on by the National Security Agency, but many support law enforcement profiling of Muslims, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Arab American Institute. The survey, conducted by Zogby Analytics for the advocacy group, found that 42 percent of Americans believe law enforcement is justified in using profiling tactics against Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans. The survey also shows American attitudes toward Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans have turned for the worse since the Arab American Institute first began polling on the subject in 2010. The new poll found favorability toward Arab-Americans at 36 percent, down from 43 percent in 2010. For Muslim-Americans, favorability was just 27 percent, compared with 36 percent in 2010. The poll found a growing number of Americans doubt that Muslim-Americans or Arab-Americans would be able to perform in a government post without their ethnicity or religion affecting their work. Thirty-six percent of respondents felt that Arab-Americans would be influenced by their ethnicity, and 42 percent said Muslim-Americans would be influenced by religion. Results differed by political party, with the majority of Republicans holding negative views of both Arab-Americans and Muslims. Democrats gave Arab-Americans a 30 percent unfavorable rating and Muslim-Americans a 33 percent unfavorable rating, while Republicans gave Arab-Americans a 54 percent unfavorable rating and Muslim-Americans a 63 percent unfavorable rating. [Source: Huffington Post]. Yet despite such surveys, a small clique of Muslims continue to think that relations with America are good for the Muslim world. Allah says:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ لاَ تَتَّخِذُواْ بِطَانَةً مِّن دُونِكُمْ لاَ يَأْلُونَكُمْ خَبَالاً وَدُّواْ مَا عَنِتُّمْ قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاء مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ الآيَاتِ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ
“Oh you who have Iman! Take not for intimates others than your own folk, who would spare no pains to ruin you; they love to hamper you. Hatred is revealed by (the utterance of) their mouths, but that which their breasts hide is greater. We have made plain for you the revelations if ye will understand.”
(Al-Imran: 118)
Billionaire Tells Americans to Prepare For Financial Ruin
The United States could soon become a large-scale Spain or Greece, teetering on the edge of financial ruin. That’s according to Donald Trump, who painted a very ugly picture of where this country is headed. Trump made the comments during a recent appearance on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” According to Trump, the United States is no longer a rich country. “When you’re not rich, you have to go out and borrow money. We’re borrowing from the Chinese and others. We’re up to $16 trillion in debt.” He goes on to point out that the downgrade of US debt is inevitable. “We are going up to $16 trillion [in debt] very soon, and it’s going to be a lot higher than that before he gets finished. When you have [debt] in the $21-$22 trillion, you are talking about a downgrade no matter how you cut it.” Ballooning debt and a credit downgrade aren’t Trump’s only worries for this country. He says that the official unemployment rate of 8.2 percent “isn’t a real number” and that the real figure is closer to 15 percent to 16 percent. He even mentioned that some believe the unemployment rate to be as high as 21 percent. “Right now, frankly, the country isn’t doing well,” Trump added, “Recession may be a nice word.” While 15 percent to 16 percent unemployment, a looming credit downgrade, and ballooning debt are a bleak outlook for the United States, they are hardly as alarming as the scenario laid out by another economist. [Source: Money Matters].
America’s billionaires are the ones who created economic ruin for their people. And now they are openly warning their people, but are careful to conceal their crimes. Allah says:
أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ بَدَّلُواْ نِعْمَةَ اللّهِ كُفْرًا وَأَحَلُّواْ قَوْمَهُمْ دَارَ الْبَوَارِ
“Have you not considered those who exchanged the favor of Allah for disbelief and settled their people [in] the home of ruin?”
(Ibrahim: 28)
Arab States Support Jewish State against Hamas
Egypt is leading a new coalition of Arab states — including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — that has effectively lined up with the Jewish state in its fight against Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip, says the New York Times in a report published on Thursday. The newspaper said that after the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi might have contributed to the failure of the antagonists to reach a negotiated ceasefire even after more than three weeks of bloodshed. Battling Hamas in Gaza two years ago, the Jewish state found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting. However, the newspaper says “the Arab states’ loathing and fear of political Islam is so strong that it outweighs their allergy to Benjamin Netanyahu,” the prime minister of Israel, said Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Centre in Washington and a former Middle East negotiator under several presidents. “I have never seen a situation like it, where you have so many Arab states acquiescing in the death and destruction in Gaza and the pummeling of Hamas,” he said. “The silence is deafening”, the newspaper quoted Mr Miller as saying. [Dawn News and New York Times].
The treachery of the Arab and Muslim rulers knows no bounds when it comes to betraying the vital interests of Ummah. Rather than cooperating in good works, the rulers of the Muslim world are committed to fighting Islam and see no shame in plunging the dagger of the Kuffar deep into the heart of the Ummah. The time has come for the Muslim Ummah and her armies to take the matter into their own hands and remove these oppressive rulers and their colonial masters from our lands!
700 killed in US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Identified
The United Kingdom-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has been able to record the names of more than 700 people reportedly killed by the CIA-operated drones in Pakistan and nearly half of them are stated to be civilians. The names were recorded as part of the project “Naming the Dead” to identify the 2,342 persons killed to-date in the US drone strikes in Pakistan. “Nearly half, 323, of the people identified are reported to be civilians, including 99 children. The database of names has grown since its launch last year, but those identified still make up fewer than one in three of the 2,342 reportedly killed in drone attacks,” said a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It said the Bureau uses open source materials to monitor and record all drone attacks in covert war situations, including Pakistan. “The data gathered reveals that at least 2,342 people have been killed in these attacks in the northern tribal areas of Pakistan. Of those killed, at least 416 are reported to be civilians,” it added. The report noted that the US authorities claim that only militants are killed in drone strikes, but only 295 reported militants killed in drone attacks have been identified. “There are an additional 95 people identified by the Bureau who are classed as ‘unknown’, where it is unclear whether they were civilians or members of a militant group. The Bureau has published case studies where details of the dead are known — but for many others, their name is almost all that is reported about them,” it added. The report said that ‘Naming the Dead’ project gathers the names of people reportedly killed by CIA drones in Pakistan, along with any available biographical details — although often such details are scarce. “The project launched in September 2013, is publishing 568 names of people killed in more than 370 drone strikes since 2004. This is the biggest publicly available list of drone victims, and draws on the thousands of media reports, court documents and other sources that inform the Bureau’s main drones databases,” the report said. “In total, the Bureau has identified reports suggesting at least 168 children died in drone strikes, of whom it has identified 99 by name. This means around three-fifths of child drone victims have been identified so far. Sixty-seven of these names belong to children killed in a single attack, an October 2006 strike on a madrassa in Bajaur Agency that killed 81 civilians,” the report explained. [Source: The News International]
Whether it is America, the Jewish state or any other country engaged in killing Muslims— for them it is all the same, the blood of Muslims is cheap and spilling it is easily justifiable under the pretext of ‘collateral damage’, ‘surgical strikes’, ‘fighting terror’ and other senseless phrases. The Ummah will neither forgive nor forget, and when the glorious Khilafah returns the enemy of Muslims and their agents will surely taste what their souls have perpetrated.