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What now for Myanmar's government?

Reports from Myanmar say government troops have opened fire on a crowd of about 1,000 protesters in the city of Yangon as the country's military rulers continue to crack down on anti-government demonstrations. Will Myanmar's government be toppled? Are you in Myanmar and if so what do you think? Send us your views.

Added: Thursday, 27 September 2007, 12:39 PM Mecca time, 09:39 AM GMT

It’s not new for Myanmar's government. The generals did not give the people their rights since a long time...I think the government of Myanmar...established themselves as brutal rulers. They always take an offensive policy against any kind of public function. They house detaioned the top leader for the last twenty years. They always break human rights. They have killed thousands Arakanis Muslims without any causes. If Myanmar's people want to escape from the military ruler, they need to fight strongly against them, otherwise, they'll get punished all time. A military general never give power to a democrat government. I saw this type of crackdown various times. The same thing that is happening now has happened previously. After some days every thing will come to normal and the generals will continue their ruling.

Md. Azizur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sheikh Salman al-Oadah letter to Bin laden and my reply .

I’m Muslim. I’m not agreeing with your logic. You mention lots of our prophet voice and try to explain if you killed a wing of bird without any cause almighty Allah should punished us. We should be bound to reply him why we killed the innocent bird. Yes I’m agreeing with this logic. But Bin laden not killed innocent people. Or not any young Muslim sacrifices their life for Bin laden. They sacrifice their life for Islam. They take revenge their father, mother, sister, and children bloodshed in every where in the world. I’m really surprise to read your letter. I think you are forgetting the rules of Jihad. I’m General Muslim I’m not intellectual person. But my idea its bound to every Muslim now take weapons against the crusader and all evil society. I’m thundered how you write about this type of letter. You not encourage Muslim fighter rather you try to reduce their mind to sacrifice their life for Islam. You asked him how he reply when he present to almighty Allah. Rather I asked you what’s you reply when you present almighty Allah. If Allah asked you when the evil coalition killed Muslim you never told anything them but now you teach Muslim fighter. You told him “ Here is the vital question that you need to ask yourself and that others have the right to demand and answer for: What have all these long years of suffering, tragedy, tears, and sacrifice actually achieved? “ Rather I Asked you before 1/11 why Muslim should suffering. Why American troops stay our holy land. Why Israel killed our Palestinian brother everyday still now. Why our brother sacrifice life in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir, Myanmar, China and soviet Russia and all around the world. I know you never reply. Before 1/11 if you saved? Never ever. You never ever change the Muslim fighter mind. Muslim fighter never maintain the order of bin laden rather they try to follow the order of holy Quaran. It’s also true that’s now he became the supreme commander of Muslim fighter. Because Muslim nation not save their citizen the offensive attack of crusader. I challenge you; you never stop this holy war until Muslim will win. If you alive next five years you see Muslin fighter start fight the land of crusader InshaAllah. In this war lots of General Muslim and its commander became shuhada and if almighty Allah want bin laden and his company honor as a shuhada. But fight will not stop another person take the charge and fight will continue until Islam established whole the world. You not misguide the Muslim Fighter they should ready sacrifice their life for Islam .

A Ramadan Letter to Osama bin Laden.Sheikh Salman al-Oadah

Sheikh Salman b. Fahd al-Oadah, the general supervisor of IslamToday.net, delivered the following address to Osama bin Laden live on NBC television on 14 September, 2007, which corresponds to the second say of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia:

Brother Osama:

How much blood has been spilled? How many innocent children, women, and old people have been killed, maimed, and expelled from their homes in the name of “al-Qaeda”?

Are you happy to meet Allah with this heavy burden on your shoulders? It is a weighty burden indeed – at least hundreds of thousands of innocent people, if not millions.

How could you wish for that? – after knowing that Allah’s Messenger said: “Whoever as much as kills a sparrow in vain will find it crying before Allah on the Day of Judgment: ‘My Lord! That person killed me in vain. He did not kill me for needful sustenance.”

This religion of ours comes to defense of the life of a sparrow. It can never accept the murder of innocent people, regardless of what supposed justification is given for it.

Didn’t you read where the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “One of the prophets once sat under a tree and was bitten by an ant. Because of this, he burnt the ant’s nest. Thereupon, Allah inspired to him: ‘Why not only the one ant?’ ” [Sahîh Muslim]

Allah revealed to that prophet: “What? Just because one ant had bitten you, you have set fire to an entire nation that extols Allah’s glory!” [Sahîh Muslim (2241)]

If this is the case for a nest of ants, consider how much worse it must be to visit harm upon human beings.

Who is responsible for all of those young Muslim, who are still in the bloom of their youth, with all the zeal of their age, who have strayed down a path they have no idea where it is headed?

The image of Islam today is tarnished. People around the world are saying how Islam teaches that those who do not accept it must be killed. They are also saying that the adherents of Salafi teachings kill Muslims who do not share their views.

However, the reality of Islam is that our Prophet (peace be upon him) did not kill the treacherous hypocrites in his midst, even though Allah had revealed to him who they were and informed him that they were destined for the deepest depths of Hell. Why did he stay his hand? He gave the following reason: “I will not have people saying that Muhammad kills his companions.”

Brother Osama, what happened on September 11 – crimes that we have condemned vociferously since that very day – was the murder of a few thousand people, possible a little less than three thousand. This is the number that dies in the airplanes as well as in the towers. By contrast, Muslim preachers – who remain unknown and unsung – have succeeded in guiding hundreds of thousands of people to Islam, people who have ever since been guided by the light of faith and whose hearts are filled with the love of Allah. Isn’t the difference between one who kills and one who guides obvious?

Our Lord tells us: “Whosoever kills a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the Earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the lives of all mankind.” [Sûrah al-Mâ’idah: 32]

Guiding one soul to knowledge and faith is a momentous achievement. It is what will earn us great blessings.

Brother Osama, what is to be gained from the destruction of entire nations – which is what we are witnessing in Afghanistan and Iraq – seeing them torn them with plague and famine? What is to be gained from undermining their stability and every hope of a normal life? Three million refugees are packing into Syria and Jordan alone, not to mention those who are fleeing to the East and the West.

The nightmare of civil war which now reigns supreme in Afghanistan and Iraq brings no joy to the Muslims. When the Prophet (peace be upon him) heard about a man named Harb (meaning “war” in Arabic), he promptly changed his name to something else, because the Prophet hated war.

Allah says: “Fighting is prescribed for you, though you detest it.” [Sûrah al-Baqarah: 216]

War is something hateful that must only be resorted to under the most dire and compelling of circumstances when no other way is found.

Who stands to benefit from turning a country like Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, or Saudi Arabia – or any other country for that matter – into a battlefield where no one feels safe? Is the goal to obstruct the government? Is that, then, the solution for anything?

Is this the plan – even if it is achieved by marching over the corpses of hundreds of thousands of people – police, soldiers, and civilians, even the common Muslims? Are their deaths to be shrugged off, saying: “They will be resurrected in the Hereafter based on the state of their hearts.”

Indeed, all of those who are slain will be resurrected based on the state of their hearts. The question we must ask ourselves, however, is in what state are we going to be resurrected? How are we going to find ourselves when we meet our Lord? How will it be for someone who has all those countless deaths weighing down upon him, whether he wants to own up to them or not?

The concern for conveying Islam’s message to humanity is one that can influence others and convince them. This is a far greater and far weightier concern than that of using brute force and violence to bend others to one’s will. “Allah sent His Messenger (peace be upon him) as a guide for humanity, not as a tax collector.” as `Umar b. `Abd al-`Azîz used to say.

Who is responsible – brother Osama – for promoting the culture of excommunication which has torn families asunder and has led to sons calling their fathers infidels? Who is responsible for fostering a culture of violence and murder that has led to people to shed the blood of their relatives in cold blood, rather than nurturing the spirit of love and tranquility that a Muslim family is supposed to have?

Who is responsible for the young men who leave their mothers crying; who abandon their wives; whose small children wake up every day asking when daddy is coming home? What answer can be given, when that father may very well be dead, or missing with no one knowing of his fate?

Who is responsible for Western governments pursuing every charitable project in the world, so that the orphans, the poor, and the needy throughout the globe are deprived of food, education, and other essential needs? Who is responsible – brother Osama – for filling the prisons of the Muslim world with our youth, a situation which will only breed more extremism, violence, and murder in our societies?

Muhammad (peace be upon him) – my source of guidance as well as yours – is what he came with not enough for you? He was sent as a mercy for all humanity. Allah says: “And We sent you merely as a mercy for all humanity.” [Sûrah al-Anbiyâ’: 107]

The word “mercy” is not to be found in the lexicon of war. Where is the mercy in murdering people? Where is the mercy in bombing places? Where is the mercy in making people and places into targets? Where is the mercy in turning many Muslim countries into battlefields?

The Prophet (peace be upon him) brought all of Arabia under his sway without a single slaughter, despite all of the battles that were waged against him. The number of people who were killed during the twenty-three years of his mission were less than two hundred people. The Muslims who were killed during that time by their enemies were many times in excess of that number.

What do a hundred people in Algeria, or double that number in Lebanon, or likewise in Saudi Arabia hope to achieve by carrying out acts of violence – or as they say, suicide attacks? These acts are futile.

Let us say – purely hypothetically – that these people manage to take power somewhere in the world. What then? What can people who have no life experience hope to achieve in the sphere of good governance? People who have no knowledge of Islamic law to support them and no understanding of domestic and foreign relations?

Is Islam only about guns and ammunition? Have your means become the ends themselves?

That ideology that so many young people have embraced in many parts of the world, is it revelation from Allah that cannot be questioned or reconsidered? Or is it merely a product of human effort that is subject to error and to being corrected?

Many of your brethren in Egypt, Algeria and elsewhere have come to see the end of the road for that ideology. They realize how destructive and dangerous it is. They have also found the courage to proclaim in their writings and on the air that they were mistaken and that the path they had been on was the path of error. They admit that it cannot lead to anything good. They have sought Allah’s forgiveness for what has passed and have expressed their sincere regrets for what they had done.

Those with brave hearts need just as much to have courageous minds.

Do you not hear the voices of the pious scholars, those who worship Allah day and night and are truly heedful of Allah – don’t you hear them crying out with the very same words that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used when Khâlid b. al-Walîd, the commander-in-chief of his army, acted in error: “O Allah! I plead my innocence to You from what Khâlid has done.”

These same words still echo after 1400 years in the cries of the scholars of Islam: “O Allah! I plead my innocence to You from what Osama is doing, and from those who affiliate themselves to his name or work under his banner.”

Life, Osama, should not be a single lesson. We must face numerous lessons throughout our lives, and these lessons are of a great variety.

I am no different than that of a lot of other people who are concerned with Muslim affairs. My heart pains me when I think of the number of young people who had so much potential – who would have made such great and original contributions to society, who had so much to offer that was constructive and positive – who have been turned into living bombs.

Here is the vital question that you need to ask yourself and that others have the right to demand and answer for: What have all these long years of suffering, tragedy, tears, and sacrifice actually achieved?

I ask Allah to bring everyone together upon the truth and right guidance. I pray that he guides us all to what pleases Him.

– Salman b. Fahd al-Oadah

Dishonored my prophet (sm) never escapes without punished.

Recently some news paper tries to dishonor our Prophet (sm). It’s really unfair. The devil intentionally tries to insult our prophet (sm). They think now the Muslim nation not able to punish them. It’s not true. We mark every culprit and when the time is coming we should punished them. Denmark is the one of the country tries to dishonor our prophet. We never forget it. They first write something and after they want forgive. Totally they did intentionally. Some Muslim culprit also join the devil .They also try to unstable Muslim society. In my country about ninety percent of Muslim. But last 16 September one of the kadiwani back newspaper try to dishonored our prophet (sm). Now they want to pardon. But we the general Muslim never ever forgive them. We identify them. They are the agent of foreign country. The editors of the newspaper also try to write against Islam and Muslim. He also favors Kadiwani and Kadiwani back the news paper. So they intentionally had done this. Not only Prothom alo other English and Bangle newspaper also back by kadiwani and foreign agent. But their conspiracy never comes one reality. We never ever fallen their trap. They want to unstable our country. We want government should take hard initiative to stop this type of yellow journalism and band that news paper and declare kadiwani non Muslim . I urge General Muslim in Bangladesh and aboard avoid prothom alo and Kadiwani Company. Never ever they do anything InshaAllah we the general Muslim win this battle against the devil, evil, crusader and the agent of Jews.

Aljazeera.net : Has there been progress in Iraq ?

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Has there been progress in Iraq?

The White House has delivered a report to the US congress saying that Iraqi leaders have failed to meet half of their key military and political goals. Has the so-called "surge" worked for Iraq? Has there been progress in the country? Are you in Iraq and, if so, what do you think? Send us your views.

Added: Sunday, 16 September 2007, 10:42 AM Mecca time, 07:42 AM GMT

I'm not agreeing this voice rather I think America totally fail to control in Iraq. They have demolished all Iraqis infrastructure but not stable Iraq. Now Bush declare that he reduce his soldiers. Next June they reduce 30 thousand solders. It’s not proved that they stable Iraq rather it’s proved that they try to escape from Iraq. If they back home early they save their live but until every American back home they should fallen terrible attack. Its true Iraqis government not rules Iraq properly. But everyone knows its not genuine Iraqis government. It’s a shadow government that’s ruled by the American. American is not want to directly rule Iraq. Its one of their conspiracy. So back troops not save America in Iraq .Muslim should raise this time and America should give more penalty this time than they gave penalty in Vietnam. So be ready for penalty and see the Muslim victory in Iraq.

Md. Azizur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aljazeera.net . Osama bin Laden tape : Your views

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Osama bin Laden tape: Your views

A videotape purporting to show Osama bin Laden has been released in which the al-Qaeda leader warns George Bush that he is repeating the "mistakes of the former Soviet Union". Is Osama bin Laden still influential? Send us your views.

Added: Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 11:44 AM Mecca time, 08:44 AM GMT

Bin laden never threatened the USA or any other country. No one proved that he has done the 9/11 situation. Muslims should believe that the Jews have done it and tried to victimise Muslims for the causes. After that those are beneficiary. Muslims have fallen into a bad situation. So you can never tell that's Muslim have done that. It’s a conspiracy for the Muslim nation. This time Laden has done an excellent job. He invites Americans to embrace Islam or to be attacked. They are guilty for killing Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. So as a Muslim we do not think about Laden's chapter rather we think what's our responsibility... So try to realize your responsibility as a Muslim in this circumstance in the Muslim world. Laden said that America has made a mistake in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not only Laden but the American people also said they have no future in Iraq. Bush compares Iraq with Vietnam. You do not disagree to Laden's voice. Muslim reputation is back again.

Md. Azizur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aljazeera.net . Can Pakistan overcome political chaos ?

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Can Pakistan overcome political chaos?

Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's former prime minister, has been deported to Saudi Arabia amid high drama hours after arriving in Islamabad from a seven year exile. What does this mean for Pakistan? Are you in Pakistan and, if so, what do you think?

Added: Monday, 10 September 2007, 12:54 PM Mecca time, 09:54 AM GMT

Everybody suspects that Musharraf'll detain Nawaz , but Sharif comes to Pakistan as a superman... Musharraf...pressures him not to inter Pakistan, But Nawaz does not agree. So the real challenge for Musharraf will come soon. It's not finished, detaining Nawaz. We know the Supreme Court does not like Musharraf. So my assumption is that Nawaz will be bailed immediately. So Musharraf will face a new challenge and a deep problem. Musharraf'll try an agreement with Bonazir. But In Pakistan Nawaz is more popular than Bonajir. So what will happen in Pakistan? No one can tell. Musharraf is a disputed president in Pakistan. He demolished the Red Mosque and killed thousands of students and teachers to satisfy his big boss America. Still I think no power will protect him. We just wait to see what'll happen to his life next. My assumption is that Pakistan will declare an emergency very soon. It's the last weapon for Musharraf to continue. But in the end he may be punished. No one'll save him. A real game will start in Pakistan now.

Md. Azizur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Added: Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 04:51 PM Mecca time, 01:51 PM GMT

The drama is not finished here. Sharif will be back in Pakistan again very soon. When he touches Pakistan soil one time he should come again and again. We know America helps Musharraf to back Sharif in Saudi. But the people would want to their leader. So Musharraf's conspiracy will never succeed. The time of Musharraf will be finished. We believe Sharif will be back home again and he'll end Musharraf and his devil aides. So the game is not finished, the game has just started. You just wait and see what kind of drama will be in Pakistan next.

Md. Azizur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aljazeera.net . Is Iraq another Vietnam ?

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Is Iraq another Vietnam ?

President George Bush has called the campaign in Iraq "an ideological struggle", warning a US withdrawal from Iraq could trigger the kind of violence that resulted in Vietnam after US troops pulled out in 1973. Is the US president's comparison of Iraq with Vietnam accurate? Are Bush's remarks an attempt to court US public opinion in the wake of the troop surge? Give us your views.

Added: Tuesday, 04 September 2007, 03:10 PM Mecca time, 12:10 PM GMT

At last Britain realizes that the Iraq war has not given them anything. They went to Iraq illegally. Many British soldiers had sacrificed their lives in Iraq for the wrong decision former Prime Minister Toni Blair. Now he is out of the scenario, but the British soldiers are left to face huge problems in Iraq. The current prime minister has taken an very emergency decision. Britain faces attacks and is under threat for sending troops in Iraq. They faced attacks in London and still are under threat. So we congratulate Britain and urge also that troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan. Brown decision is hard on America. America knows the future of Iraq. Bush compares Iraq with Vietnam, but we do not agree with him. We believe that Iraq will turn into a worse situation than Vietnam and America will not know what will happen next in Iraq. General Muslims should request that another country be in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that US troops go back home or wait for terrible attacks.

Md. Azizur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aljazeera.net . South korean hostage crisis .

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South Korean hostages: Your Views

Nineteen hostages released by the Taliban have arrived back in South Korea more than six weeks after they were captured in southern Afghanistan. What are your thoughts on the ban of Korean Christian aid workers in Afghanistan, Seoul's withdraw its small military presence and of Seoul's decision to pay a ransom for their return to the Taliban? Send us your views.

Added: Sunday, 02 September 2007, 11:22 AM Mecca time, 08:22 AM GMT

At last Korean hostage freed. It's positive for everyone. Two of them were dead. If Korean authority start talk early may be they are not sacrifice their life. Thanks for Taliban. This time they show huge political responsibility. Korean also in right track. If they depended Afghan government and America authority may be every of their citizen would die. We request Korean and another country don't try to send troops or religious worker in Afghanistan. Everyone knows the situation of Afghanistan. So now the country completely under insurgency. So I request NATO countries back troops form Afghanistan and save your countrymen. It's now reality that Taliban are raising Afghanistan and day to come very hard for any foreigner. So be alert about Afghanistan. This is time for every foreign fighter back home or take risk in your life.

Md. Azizur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh