Islam is also good friends with Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic who is linked to Al Qaeda and the Muhajideen. Islam met Izetbegovic in London in 1995 and dedicated an album to the Bosnian Foreign Minister, Dr. Irfan Lubjiankic .

"In Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the civil war lasted just over three years, the ties between the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and known terrorists were exposed quickly. At the beginning of the war, Izetbegovic re-connected with his old friend and a member of ruling clique (National Islamic Front) in Sudan, Dr. Elfatih Hassanein-omal-Fatih. "

The Bosnian Muslims, through Fatih's Third World Relief Agency (TWRA), began smuggling arms for their cause in 1992. American sources suspect that Sheik Omah Abdel Rahman, the radical imam who was convicted of organizing the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 1993 had several links to TWRA

Several Bosnian Muslims have direct ties with TWRA, including: Irfan Ljevakovic, a founder of the Stranka Demokratske Akcije (SDA–Alija Izetbegovic's ruling Bosnian Muslim party), the Bosnian Muslim political wing and the man responsible for bringing mujahadeens to Bosnia-Herzegovina; Alija Izetbegovic, SDA and Bosnian Muslim president who guaranteed Fatih's credentials to the Die Erste Osterreich Bank (Austria), enabling him to open an account there."

The Bosnian Muslims used the bank account to solicit and transit funds for arms purchases. Other Bosnian Muslims listed as Executive Directors of TWRA include: Hasan Cengic, Husein Zivalj (deputy foreign minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina), and Faris Nanic (an advisor of Alija Izetbegovic).

Such ties between "humanitarian organizations" and terrorists are nothing new when in comes to the Balkans. .."

http://www.balkanpeace.org/our/our02.shtml

MIM:Yusuf Islam uses his Dubai based Astrolabe company to distribute Islamic products and propagation materials . The Astrolabe "company hopes our products reach America at-large and inform an enlightened religious and cultural dialogue." http://www.astrolabe.com/about.php

Yusaf Islam's deceptively named 'International Institute for Education Resources and Research'. which omits the word Islam is an international enterprise which publishes textbooks and educational materials for use in Islamic schools. (see details of IBERR meeting in 2001 at US school below where Islam proposes tranmitting Islamic videos by satellite and note the discussion for the possible publication of texbooks in Jeddah ,Saudi Arabia) http://www.iberr.co.za/san2001b.htm

MIM: The IBERR 'mission statement' from a conference in 1999 openly calls for preparing young Muslims to implement the othe "khalifate", a global Muslim state:

Islamic Education Movement

"...The International Board of Educational Research and Resources is the brainchild of a group of Muslims stimulated into action by Brother Yusuf Islam..."

"...It could be said that the Islamic education movement started as a reaction to the ‘secularisation' of education in Muslim countries and the consequent marginalisation of the traditional Islamic sciences based on the Qur'an and Sunnah. Starting with the landmark World Islamic Education Conference held in Makkah in 1977, efforts were made to define and develop an Islamic education model based on the basic tenets of ‘Aqidat al Tawheed' which prepares young Muslims to undertake the mission of ‘khilafat' ..."

http://www.iberr.co.za/iberr1.htm

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http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/bmms/1996/02February96.html#Islamia%20School%20funding%20crisis

MIM: In 1996 at the same time that Islam started Muslim Aid and had been treasurer of the Muslim Council of Britain his school funding from Saudi Arabia was cut for because of his "moral support for those opposed to the government of Saudi Arabia.This is further proof of his support for groups such as Al Qaeda and would fit in with his funding of Muhajideen in Bosnia.

Islamia School funding crisis

The Islamia school in Brent, north London, is facing a severe financial crisis due to an 85% cut in the donation usually received from Saudi Arabia and handed over in Ramadan (see BMMS for December 1995). Yusuf Islam, the school's founder and chair of the board of governors, believes that the cut, from £150,000 to £25,000, may be due to his moral support of those opposed to the Saudi government. He said: "We try to be unbiased but if I was locked up I hope someone would ask about me. It is only wishing for your brother what you wish for yourself" (Guardian Weekly 22.02.96). However, Mr Islam laid the responsibility for lack of funds on the educational policies of the government. He said: "...we have to go, begging bowl in hand, to affluent Muslim countries asking for help, even though the law of the land is on our side for state funding". Over 7000 Christian and 24 Jewish schools receive state funding, whereas none of the 45 Muslim schools does (Muslim News 16.02.96). [BMMS February 1996 Vol. IV, No. 2, p. 11]

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MIM: Sound Vision, an affiliate of the the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview Illinois. The Mosque Foundation has been under law enforcement scrutiny for more then a decade for ties to terrorism and several of their congregants have been arrested . The most recent arrest of a Mosque Foundation member was Mohammed Saleh, who was charged with involvement in funding and recruiting terrorist operatives in Gaza .

Besides being documented as having given "tens of thousands of dollars to Hamas" while on visit to Israel in 1998 Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, is the head of Astrolabe enterprises. Astrolabe is an Islamist multi media organisation which distributes Islamic propagation materials and products for the Muslim market and is based in Dubai. http://www.astrolabe.com/contributor/396/Yusuf_Islam

Astrolabe is the UK equivalent of Sound Vision, a Chicago based company which is a financing front for the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, the US headquarters for the Islamic Association of Palestine, the American wing of Hamas. Astrolabe is part of Islam's "Mountain of Light" music company based since 2002 in Dubai. http://www.yusufislam.org.uk/newsreleasesept02.htm

Islam's close friend Abdul Malik Muhajid, the director of Sound Vision, is listed as the National Coordinator for the Bosnia Task Force and Kosova Task Force. The Bosnia Task Force is alleged to have direct ties to Al Qaeda and the Benevolence International Foundation, an Al Qaeda funding front whose founder Ernaam Arnaout, is now jailed on terror funding charges.

In 2002 Islam started and is the chairman of 'Small Kindness' a 'charity' primarily focused on Bosnia and Kosovo, which uses " widows" and "orphans" as standard props for soliciting donations for 'humanitarian - terrorism" causes. According to Islam's mission statement

"...Our belief is that we should not stop our support simply because the TV cameras have turned to other hotspots. Small Kindness intends to stay and grow in Kosova and the Balkans at large to help rebuild the future of its people In sha' Allah (God Willing). "... http://www.smallkindness.org/mission.htm

Islam also produced a record in solidarity with Bosnia together with 'activists' there -which is a collection of pro Bosnian propaganda under the cynical guise of children's songs. The album cover depicts 4 children with a Bosnia flag waving behind them . In the background a hulking Imam holding what appears to be a Koran towers in front of the mountains. Between the two mountains the face of someone appears almost ghostlike. It is most likely a picture of Dr. Irfan Lubiankic, who is regarded as a martyr by Yusuf Islam and Bosnian Muslims after he was killed when his plane was alleged to have been shot down by Serbs in 1995.

MIM: The so called' kids' album is entitled: "I Have No Cannons that Roar" and includes such ditties as : "Allah is Enough for Me" and "The Little Ones" . The album is intended to raise funds for "Small Kindness", and is a crude piece of political propaganda exploiting children on it's cover to elicit sympathy:

Note that the Bosnian Muslim cause has been aided and abetted since it's inception by Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda .The Benevolence International Foundation was set up as a 'charity' funding front in Bosnia which opened offices in Chicago and Florida. In 2002 Islam's Muslim Aid 'charity' was on a Spanish police list

"Muslim Aid, created in London by singer Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam), which used funds to send mujahadeen fighters to Bosnia"

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/12/08/spain.alqaeda/

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Israel National News 2004

Excerpt from: "Islamist Recruitment in Bosnia - A white Al Qaeda"

"...Serbian news outlets have been reporting with increasing intensification in recent days on attempts by Islamist terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, to recruit soldiers among Bosnia's Muslims.

The independent Serbian news agency FoNet reported on Tuesday that Muslims from Bosnia-Herzegovina are being recruited to join the what has been called "white Al-Qaeda".

Slobodan Radulj, former member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's anti-terrorist task force and an adviser to the Serb member of the presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, told the Nezavisne Novine Serbian daily, "Reports by international intelligence services saying that future terrorists will be blue-eyed and blonde indicate that Al-Qaeda is recruiting in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. This is why the authorities should prevent radical Islamists from paying young and poor men to go to battlefields and to die there." (MIM: Note Yusuf Islam's statements about "Blue eyed and blonde haired Muslims...chanting "Allahu Akhbar")

Radulj also charged that among the 400 Non-Governmental Organizations operating in Bosnia, many of them were fronts for money-laundering and the financing of terrorist organizations..." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1062704/posts

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MIM: According to Kenneth Timmerman's Insight Magazine Iran has played a large role in terrorist training and recruitment in Bosnia.

Note that Yusuf Islam echoes Islamist recruitment rhetoric when he refers to as the "recent genocide in Bosnia" and "Christian hatred towards Islam and Muslims" as "a turning point for Muslims".

Islam's Iran- Bosnian connection may be a significant factor as to why Yusuf Islam is a welcome visitor in Teheran and that his music is being marketed throughout Iran where he has celebrity status.

Yusuf Islam was also accused by the US government of being linked to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who recruited Americans to fight in Bosnia while based in Brooklyn.The British group Al Muhajiroun is also connected to Abdel Rahman and has followers in New York.One of them, Junaid Babar was recently jailed in connection with a bombing plot.

"...After the Cold War, Rahman's followers, such as Hampton-El, recruited for the Bosnia "jihad." See: Al Qaeda Recruited U.S. Servicemen: Testimony Links Plot To Saudi Gov't. Sure enough, ABC News reported "that Bosnian Muslims were part of the group led by Egyptian Islamic cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman..."

According to a Spanish police report, "Muslim Aid, created in London by singer Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam)... used funds to send mujahadeen fighters to Bosnia."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/12/08/spain.alqaeda/
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Excerpt from : "Jihadists Change Terror Stereotype - Iran and Al Qaeda have been recruiting and training brigades of blonde blue- eyed Jihadists to wage war in the West"

..."More than 10 years ago, Iran and the al-Qaeda terrorist network began recruiting and training Bosnian Muslims for war against Orthodox Christian Serbs and Catholic Croats in order to expand the Muslim base in Eastern Europe. "

..."In 1992 the TFTUW (Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare ) documented this escalation by Iran and al-Qaeda, which included funding the training of Bosnian Muslims and importing weapons. The report says Iran proclaimed the battleground of Bosnia-Herzegovina a microcosm for resisting the West's war on Islam, and called in reinforcements. "They arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina in answer to Tehran's call to fight the jihad and eager to commit martyrdom in the name of Islam. They included highly trained and combat-proven volunteers from Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon and several other Arab countries."

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_42_18/ai_95150326

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YUSUF ISLAM STATEMENT ON NEW ALBUM AND BOSNIA

The recent genocide in Bosnia was a turning point for Muslims in Europe: not only did it ignite the ghosts of Christian hatred towards Islam and Muslims, it also taught about the hitherto unknown treasure of Islamic culture and civilization which Bosnia represents. The live T.V. pictures of blond haired, blue-eyed Muslims reciting the verses of the Holy Qur'an and chanting 'Allahu Akhbar', while they prayed and sang stirring anashid (songs) amidst the smoke and fury of the war, brought a whole new perspective to the concept and understanding of Islam for the many who witnessed it...

MIM: The "Peace Train Man" had this to say about his music being islamically permissable as a form of Jihad:

"...Looking again at the question of music and particularly singing in Islam, it became more clear that the issue was still highly debatable, particularly in circumstances of Jihad and war. Surely the use of certain musical instruments for the defence of the Islamic identity and culture of a nation is worthy of the same allowance as guns and rockets? It was, after all, the self-identification and culture of Bosnian Muslims and their Turkish influence (i.e. Islam) which had come under attack - not the Bosnian Muslim's military strength. A hadith may be worth quoting here. When the Prophet, peace and blessings upon Him, was entering Makkah to perform his ‘umrah al qada' (lesser pilgrimage), Abdullah bin Rawahah was walking in front of him reciting poetry against the disbelievers. ‘Umar stopped him and said, ‘O Ibn Rawahah! In the presence of the Messenger of God and in the Holy sanctuary of Allah, you are reciting poetry?' The Prophet, peace and blessings upon Him, said, "Leave him O ‘Umar. These couplets are more forceful than the showering of arrows upon them..." 1

"...I Have No Cannons That Roar' is the result of co-operative effort, constructed thoughtfully with the intention of arming Muslims with a desperately needed cultural weapon in order to protect and strengthen ourselves. We will watch its effect on the public with interest, praying that it will also open many hearts to the light of Islam and the harmony which it can bring to society and human civilisation. And we pray to Allah for forgiveness for any mistakes made in connection with our work on this project, may He pardon us and guide us to what is best. Amin..."

Note that Islam quotes :

1) Al Tirmidi's collection of Prophetic Traditions

"The Order of Jihad"

Hadith - Al-Tirmidhi #3835, Narrated AbuHurayrah
Allah's Messenger said, "If anyone meets Allah with no mark of jihad, he will meet Allah with a flaw in him." [Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it]

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Read the rest of Yusuf's statement

http://catstevens.com/articles/00029/index.html

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For more on Yusuf Islam's statements and activities on behalf of Bosnian Muslims click on the URL:

http://catstevens.com/features/tour1997/

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MIM: This' tribute' is by Abdul Malik Mujahid - director of Sound Vision and national coordinator of the Bosnia (Kosovo) Task Force

http://www.soundvision.com/shop/pview.asp?Item=7166-006

This album is dedicated to Dr. Irfan (Lubiankic), Foreign Minister of Bosnia, whose helicopter was shot down by the Serbs in 1995. A few months earlier he met Yusuf Islam and gave him a rough cassette of a song he had written and recorded at home, entitled 'I have no cannons that roar.' The song was translated into English and combined with other songs hence resulting in the production of this album. Dr. Irfan's martyrdom was the catalyst which brought about this album. It is also a tribute to the people of Bosnia and their courageous defense of their country".

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This album is a tribute to the Muslims of Bosnia. This collection of songs, in Bosnian and English, and instrumental styles, sometimes somber and sometimes heartening, will ensure that listeners never forget Bosnia and what Bosnia means for all of us. Yusuf Islam, the primary composer and lyricist, sings a reflective tune entitled, 'The Little Ones'. Other songs are 'I Have No Cannons That Roar', 'Hey Homeland', 'Allah is Enough for Me', 'Last Flight', 'I Am a Son of Yours', 'Mother, Father, Sister, Brother', 'When Adhans Are Called,' 'The Blossoms Blown', 'Where Are Makkah and Madinah', and 'Spring of Tasnim'. While saddened by the Bosnian tragedy, this album looks toward a bright future, Insha'Allah. As Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic stated, 'we believe that Bosnia will be better ".

http://www.astrolabe.com/products/viewitem.php?id=1227

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For more on :" Humanitarian Terrorism" and how Muslims and Arabs are exploiting children's charities as terrorism funding fronts see: http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/221

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Note that Yusuf Islam is a supporter of Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbekovic who aided and abetted the setting of an Al Qaeda network in Britain . Which begs the question of how much funding Yusuf Islam provided for his cause.

Excerpt from "Balkan Wars and Terrorist Ties "

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the civil war lasted just over three years, the ties between the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and known terrorists were exposed quickly. At the beginning of the war, Izetbegovic re-connected with his old friend and a member of ruling clique (National Islamic Front) in Sudan, Dr. Elfatih Hassanein-omal-Fatih.

The Bosnian Muslims, through Fatih's Third World Relief Agency (TWRA), began smuggling arms for their cause in 1992. American sources suspect that Sheik Omah Abdel Rahman, the radical imam who was convicted of organizing the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 1993 had several links to TWRA. Another terrorist with strong links with TWRA is Osama bin Laden, who tops the most wanted terrorist list in the United States. The Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-born bin Laden is noted as the most vicious terrorist today. He was indicted for terrorist attacks on a US military base in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and United States' embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Several Bosnian Muslims have direct ties with TWRA, including: Irfan Ljevakovic, a founder of the Stranka Demokratske Akcije (SDA–Alija Izetbegovic's ruling Bosnian Muslim party), the Bosnian Muslim political wing and the man responsible for bringing mujahadeens to Bosnia-Herzegovina; Alija Izetbegovic, SDA and Bosnian Muslim president who guaranteed Fatih's credentials to the Die Erste Osterreich Bank (Austria), enabling him to open an account there. The Bosnian Muslims used the bank account to solicit and transit funds for arms purchases. Other Bosnian Muslims listed as Executive Directors of TWRA include: Hasan Cengic, Husein Zivalj (deputy foreign minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina), and Faris Nanic (an advisor of Alija Izetbegovic).

Such ties between "humanitarian organizations" and terrorists are nothing new when in comes to the Balkans. ..

Click on link below for complete article or scroll to the bottom of the page.

http://www.balkanpeace.org/our/our02.shtml

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Yusuf Islam spoke at a rally for the Bosnian Task Force in Washington, D.C. Abul Malik Muhajid recounted that Frank McCloskey the former president of the BTF decided that it would be "politically incorrect" to stand on the podium with Yusuf Islam because of his calls for Salman Rushdie's murder .

The Bosnian Task Force is linked to the Al Qaeda run Benevolence International Foundation, which started operating from Chicago and opened a branch in Sunrise, Florida which was run by Adham Hassoun, who is awaiting trial on multiple terrorism charges and is said to be the man who helped Jose Padilla travel abroad and arranged for his training with Al Qaeda. ( For more on Yusuf Islam's links to the BTF see excerpt from article on SV website below).

The Bosnia and Kosova Task Force is also connected to the American Muslim Council. The president of the American Muslim Council, Abdel Rahaman Alamoudi was jailed last year on terror related charges and for complicity in a Libyan funded plot to hire a hit man to assassinate Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

Islam's connections to Abdel Malik Muhajid are reason enough to ban him from the United States. Ironically Muhajid, who calls his friend Islam a "pacifist" is named "holy warrior" in Arabic.

Even more alarming is the fact that Islam, who was documented as funding Hamas and has a 16 year friendship with Abdul Malik Muhajid, the national coordinator of the Bosnia/Kosova Task Force, and director of a company with ties to Hamas ,the Islamic Association of Palestine , and the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation, which is alleged to have been visited by associates of the 9/11 hijackers was awarded VIP status as recounted in the Chicago Sun Times article :

"Islam visited Washington last May and met with officials of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives "to talk about philanthropic work," according to White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan.

The office is across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Buchan said that was before Islam was added to the no-fly list."

Several of Islam's close affiliates whose lectures he markets such as Hamza Yusuf, an American convert to Islam, have blamed the 9/ 11 attacks on the United States and have proudly declared their militancy as can be seen by Dr. Daniel Pipes recent weblog entry regarding Hamza Yusuf's speach at an Islamic Society of North America conference. http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/327

Hamza Yusuf Fails My Test I have offered a number of questions to ask of Muslims to determine whether they are radical or moderate. Hamza Yusuf, called by the Guardian "arguably the west's most influential Islamic scholar," announced at the just-ended convention of the Islamic Society of North America, "I took that test and I failed. And I want to say to all of you, I hope you fail that test too." (September 6, 2004)

Islam's own stance disputing Muslim involvement in 9/11 drew accolades from Iranian leaders.(see quotes below ).

In a cynical attempt to diffuse criticism Islam repeatedly states to the media that he was planing to donate a portion of his album royalties to the 9/ 11 fund. Yet a look at the article reveals that Islam added that : the rest is going to orphans and homeless families in underdeveloped countries". This once again shows that Islam was able to disquise his true intentions : ie of funding Bosnian and Kosovo Al Qaeda linked organisations, by claiming that he was also going to donate to the victims of 9/11. http://www.vh1.com/thewire/content/news/1449391.jhtml

The documentation below shows that Islam's support and funding of a children's charity in Kosovo and Bosnia is directly linked to Al Qaeda. It can be no coincidence that Benevolence International Foundation,an Al Qaeda funding front which began in Bosnia, opened an office in Chicago, home of Sound Vision and it's director Abdul Malik Muhajid, who is a long time friend of Yusuf Islam. Muhajid calls himself the national coordinator of the Bosnia and Kosovo Task Forces. Yusuf Islam spoke at a BTF rally in Washington and then went on to start his "Small Kindnesses' 'charity' which is linked directly to Bosnia. The aim of Bosnian Muslims is to set up an Islamist state in the Balkans.

. Bosnia Muslims have been linked to Al Qaeda since the 1980s and Americans who were arrested in connection with the 1993 WTC bombings had fought on the side of the Muhajideen in Bosnia. The ex CAIR communications director Ismail Randall Royer, who was recently jailed on assorted terrorism charges, had boasted of his activities as a fighter in Bosnia.

Excerpt from "Al Qaeda and Bosnia - Zero Degrees of Separation":

"...The United States has long been alarmed by the presence in Bosnia of hundreds of Arab-born Muslim fundamentalists who first traveled there in the 1990´s to fight for the nation's predominantly Muslim population during the civil war. Many went there at the direction of Osama bin Laden, who apparently saw the opportunity for a Jihad defending Muslims against Serb and Croat Christians.

Osama Bin Laden directly aided the Bosnian Muslims, both financially (weapons procurement) and with training. In addition, that same "aid" was extended to the separatist Albanians of Kosovo and Macedonia. Ironically, the US found Bin Laden and his supporters "convenient" allies when dealing with Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians, again in another so-called struggle for "freedom". http://www.balkanpeace.org/our/our15.shtml

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MIM: Another Al Qaeda 'charity front' is the (International) Islamic Relief Organisation which like Yusuf Islam, also proclaimed they would give money to 9/11 victims.

The Islamic Relief organisation in the UK, which is directly linked to the Saudi Wahabist government operations and funding for bombers families and Al Qaeda, is one of the 'charities' being sued by the families of victims of 9/11. Islamic Relief , which is based in the UK and has a branch in California, brazenly solicited donations for 9/11 victims and published a cynical "Action Alert" replete with minarets. See poster below.

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Since the mid-1990s, business executives in Saudi Arabia have transferred tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to Osama bin Laden. The money was deposited into the accounts of Islamic charities, including Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief, that serve as fronts for bin Laden, according to senior U.S. government officials. http://www.biohazardnews.net/binladen.shtml

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In March 2004 an Egyptian attorney proclaimed to CNN News that Bin Laden deputy Al - Zahawiri was a charity worker for the IIRO and "not a warrior"

Al-Zawahri is an engineer by profession. El-Zayat said he was not a warrior, but was in Afghanistan working with a Saudi-based Islamic relief agency, The International Committee for Islamic Relief.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/04/egypt.alqaeda.ap/

MIM: Note that the International Islamic Relief and Islamic Relief are both part of the same Saudi organisation.

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Sound Vision and the Hamas/ IAP/ PIJ connection :

http://soundvision.com/info/peace/mccloskey.asp

MIM: This excerpt is from an article written by Sound Vision director Adul Malik Muhajid in tribute to Paul McCloskey,, and details how that McCloskey refused to share a podium with Islam at a Bosnian Task Force rally in Washington, because of Islam's "controversial " position on Rushdie.

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"Frank McCloskey -Simple, Humble and Straight"

By Adul Malik Muhajid

...McCloskey lost the election as Republican storm troopers took over Congress in 1994. His opponent declared him a congressman from Bosnia, accusing him of neglecting his constituency.

I met McCloskey only once, long after he had lost the election but won peace a chance in Bosnia. When I thanked him for his work, his response was as humble as he looked. He did regret losing his seat in Congress, but thought it was more due to a nationwide Republican mobilization than his opponent's campaigning against his work in Bosnia. His sincerity towards the cause of Bosnia struck me as an extension of his honest personality.

He (McCloskey) had agreed to speak at the Bosnia rally in Washington DC organized by the Bosnia Task Force, USA. He was, however, stopped by a member of his staff who thought that his standing with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) on the same stage was wrong because of Yusuf Islam's "controversial" position on Salman Rushdie. The staff member said it could be used by his opponents against the Congressman. McCloskey, nevertheless, personally called the office of Bosnia Task Force, USA to show his regret and full support for the cause.

On behalf of the now defunct Bosnia Task Force, USA, its volunteers, the Bosnian and the Muslim community in the USA, I would like to express my deep sorrow to the family of Frank McCloskey. I pray that we have more moral voices like his in America for the cause of justice in all quarters of the world. It is individuals like him who can once again make America great by being good.

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For more information on the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation and Sound Vision see:

Fun with Fundamentalism for Kids: To Achieve the Best of this World and the World to Come -with Sound Vision"

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Bridgeview Mosque Foundation -Hamas member Mohamed Saleh arrested with Howard U professor Abdelhaleem Ashqar on terrorism charges"

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Chicago Islamist leader Kareem Irfan sees beheadings as "a primordial sense of retaliation and revenge" http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/177

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/301 Dr. Daniel Pipes writes about Sound Vision's cynical standardized press release designed for Islamic Centers to give the appearance of denouncing terrorism.

Boilerplate for Denouncing Terrorism: I recently wrote an analysis exposing "CAIR's Phony Petition" in which I concluded that its Not-in-the-Name-of-Islam effort "seeks to clean up Islam's image without doing anything of substance."

Well, it gets even worse. Sound Vision, a project of the radical Bridgeview Mosque outside Chicago, has produced "A sample statement/resolution of condemnation" for use with the media when Islamist terrorism once again rears its ugly head. Sound Vision helpfully suggests that "Your Islamic center can adopt, rewrite and issue the following statement to your local media." It also advises users to "replace ‘Muslims of America' with the Muslim community of your city" and "type this or your modified version on your Masjid or Islamic center's letterhead." It even explains that to fax the press release to the news desk of local media outlets you can "find the fax numbers in your yellow or white pages."

Then follows the meaningless boilerplate statement. (July 30, 2004)

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Steven Emerson recounts his visit to the Mosque Foundation aka Bridgeview mosque:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/649858/posts

Later, he took Khalid and me to the Bridgeview Mosque, where Jamal Said was the imam. I could tell immediately that we were deep in the heart of Hamas territory. The walls of the vestibule were covered with Hamas posters and recruiting literature showing masked gunmen brandishing automatic weapons. It was all in Arabic, but you could see daggers plunged into Jewish hearts wrapped up in American flags. They even had a library filled with militant terrorist videos and books. Khalid was there to translate for me. The Friday service was a rather strange experience. Out of 800 people, I was the only one wearing a red ski jacket. When the service was over I approached the imam and asked him if he had known Abdullah Azzam. He was very defensive. "I never met with him," he said quickly and then dismissed me. Earlier that year, two Hamas operatives, congregants of the mosque, were arrested in Israel for transferring money from the United States to terrorists on the West Bank. One of these men, Mohammad Jarad, told the Israelis that he was sent on his mission by Jamal Said.

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MIM: Abdul Malik Muhajid director of the Hamas affiliated Sound Vision company and Al Qaeda linked Bosnia (and Kosovo ) Task Force asserts that his friend Yusuf Islam is a pacifist and urges him to sing and "tell them what you believe".

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MM:Yusuf Islam laments that Muslims will get a bad rap because of the "allegedly" Muslim background of the 9/11 hijackers: He contradicts his his professed uncertainty by ending his 'boilerplate' condemnation of the 'disaster' insinuating that Muslims will be the victims of retaliation.

"..As chairman of the board which runs the small one-form primary school, I decided, in consultation with the teachers and parents alike, to shut the school for a few days, until the dust settles and people can see things a bit more clearly. But, sadly, as more evidence is uncovered, the latest horror to hit the United States allegedly looks to have been caused by people bearing Muslim names and of Middle Eastern origin...

...This is why I felt it necessary to write and explain some basic facts about the reality of this noble way we call Islam before, God forbid, another bout of disaster occurs - aimed probably next time at the Muslim World..."

http://www.soundvision.com/info/terrorism/yusufislam.asp

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MIM: The Iranian government propaganda ministry valued celebrity Muslim convert Yusuf Islam's support of the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa calling for the murder of fellow Briton , the writer and lapsed Muslim Salman Rushdie, so much that they announced they would 'reward him' by marketing his music.They also approved of Yusuf Islam's statements denouncing claims that Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1204687/posts

"Iran's Islamic Propagation Organisation has approved for sale the music of Cat Stevens, the British singer who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam.

"We have chosen to put on the market a selection of songs from Cat Stevens, to show to the Iranian youth that not everything in the West is bad," the organisation's music director Reza Mahdavi told AFP.

"We want to invite Yusuf Islam to Iran. When his album and book comes out, it will be a good time for him to come," Mr Mahdavi said, adding a second album and book was ready to roll if the first release proved a success.

But it is unclear if Stevens, who is 56 and lives in London where he is involved in several Muslim charities, will be making any royalties from the Iranian release of his work

"We will also publish the comments of Yusef Islam after September 11, in which he denounces the allegations made against Muslims," the official said, before going on to say the singer should visit the Islamic republic".

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MIM: Abdul Malik Mujahid, director of the Sound Vision company which is a subsidiary of the Mosque Foundation in Chicago, tied to Hamas and the Islamic Association of Palestine for over a decade, claims that his friend of 16 years, who was banned from Israel for donating money to Hamas , and supported a fatwa calling for the murder of a writer, is a pacifist .

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Local Friend Portrays Stevens as Muslim Pacifist

http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-cat23.html

by Andrew Herrmann

Chicago Sun Times

News of trouble for Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, sent Chicago's Abdul Malik Mujahid rushing to his computer. Mujahid's e-mail message to his friend, the onetime pop sensation: sing.

Mujahid, who has been friends with Yusuf Islam for about 16 years, advised the 1970s star to "write some songs for America. Tell them about Islam. Tell them what you believe."

Islam was deported to London on Wednesday, a day after the London-to-Washington flight he was on was diverted to Maine because his name was on a government watch list.

U.S. officials said Islam is forbidden from entering the United States because of alleged ties to possible terrorists but provided few details.

Alleged links to terrorism

Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle would only say that the intelligence community has recently obtained information that "further heightens concern" about Islam.

"Yusuf Islam has been placed on the watch lists because of activities that could potentially be related to terrorism," Doyle said. "It's a serious matter."

A second government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said U.S. authorities think donations from Islam may have ended up helping to fund blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted in a plot to bomb New York City landmarks, and Hamas, a Palestinian militant group considered a terrorist organization by the United States.

Mujahid said the charge that his friend is associated with terrorists is ridiculous, arguing that Islam devoted a portion of profits from a boxed set of Cat Stevens tunes to the World Trade Center Fund.

In 1995, Mujahid helped persuade Islam to go back into the studio after 20 years. Islam's effort then, "The Life of the Last Prophet," included three songs. It was released by Mujahid's Sound Vision, a Bridgeport firm specializing in the Muslim market.

Mujahid doesn't want Sound Vision to release the new songs.

"I'd rather it be a mainstream label so everyone could hear him."

Though it was Cat Stevens who wrote the classic "Peace Train" in 1971, Yusuf Islam "is still all about peace," Mujahid said.

Attended Chicago conventions

For many Chicago Muslims, Yusuf Islam is a familiar face -- he attended religious conventions here in 1999 and 2003 and his children's recordings, like the eight-song "A is for Allah," are popular among many Islamic families. At a first anniversary memorial service for victims of the 9/11 attacks, children from a Villa Park mosque sang his "Silent Sunlight." Pop stars such as Sheryl Crow and Mandy Moore have covered Cat Stevens' songs.

Raised in Orthodox Christianity, he formally embraced Islam in 1977 after nearly drowning.

He abandoned the pop music world as incompatible with his new life.

Mujahid had dinner with Islam last year in Chicago. "He opposes the Iraq war, but he's opposed to all wars," Mujahid said.

Islam visited Washington last May and met with officials of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives "to talk about philanthropic work," according to White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan.

The office is across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Buchan said that was before Islam was added to the no-fly list.

Islam's brother David Gordon said he has condemned terrorist acts and donates money to terrorism victims. "He just wants to be an ambassador for peace," said Gordon, who lives in Princeton, N.J., and serves as Islam's business manager.

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MIM: Sound Vision bio of Abdul Malik Mujahid states that he was the national coordinator for the Bosnian Task Force and Kosova Task Force which comprises "more the 15 national organisations of Muslims groups North America".

Both the Bosnia and Kosova task forces have been linked to Al Qaeda.

Sound Vision is affiliated with the Mosque Foundation which is the US headquarters for Hamas and the Islamic Association of Palestine. The spokesman for the Mosque Foundation is Rafiq Jaber the head of the IAP in the U.S.

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http://www.soundvision.com/about/boardofdirectors.asp

ABDUL MALIK MUJAHID, President
HASEEB AKHTAR, Secretary
TAUFIQ AHMAD, Treasurer
MUHAMMAD FUAD LASHKARWALA, Director
MUHAMMAD KHALID RIAZ, MD. Director

ABDUL MALIK MUJAHID, is the President and Director of Sound Vision Foundation Inc. Award-winning author and producer, he is an Imam in the Chicago area. A graduate of Darul Uloom Shah Waliullah in Islamic Studies and the University of Chicago in Political Science, he has learned television production as director and producer at the Chicago Access Corporation. He is the producer of Sound Vision's programs. He was also responsible for the concept and design of Al-Qari, the leading Quran learning multimedia software. Mujahid has served as the National Coordinator of Bosnia Task Force, USA. It was in this capacity that he initiated the formation of the Islamic Shura Council of North America. He also serves as National Coordinator of Kosova Task Force, USA, an alliance of 15 national organizations of Muslims in America.

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http://www.islam-online.net/iol-English/qadaya/qpolitic-13/qpolitic1.asp

MIM: In a pre prison interview , jailed AMC president Abdelrahman Alamoudi,speaks about the American Muslim Council's ties to the Bosnia Task Force and support for the Bosnia cause.

After the arrest of AMC president Abdelrahman Alamoudi on terrorism charges. the AMC virtually dissappeared overnight. The AMC was involved in countless fundraising groups and initiatives linked to terrorism under the façade of charitable enterprises.

Alamoudi's case is a textbook study of how militant Islamists can pass for years under the guise "mainstream Muslims" and enjoy VIP status before finally being arrested on terrorism charges.

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For more on the Abdulrahman Alamoudi and the American Muslim Council see :

United States of America vs. Abdulrahman Mohamed Alamoudi

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/98

"Abdulrahman Alamoudi : Qadaffi's Hit Man?"

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1876

Adulrahman Alamoudi: A Slick Islamist Heads to Jail

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1994

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The American Muslim Council has co-sponsored several events with non-Islamic organizations. Can you give us some examples and what were these events designed to achieve?
A: We have sponsored several conferences, as well as participated in numerous projects. For example, although the American Muslim Council is part of the Bosnia Task Force USA, a Muslim group, we helped establish the American Task Force for Bosnia (ATFB), to include members of different faiths. We successfully brought Christian, Jewish and other organizations together in support of Bosnia. We believe Bosnia is more a humanitarian issue than a purely Islamic one.

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http://www.justiceforall.org/kosova-btf.asp

Many of you are familiar with the Bosnia Task Force, USA, a national coalition that was supported by over 10 national organizations unifying Muslims from across America in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Bosnia.

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MIM: Excerpt detailing Steven Emerson's analysis of the Kosovo Task Force as a front for militant Islamic groups in the United States.

http://www.forward.com/search/gitell200403151258.php

One terrorism analyst, Steven Emerson, said there is some evidence that Islamic extremists are attempting to exploit the Kosovo conflict. "It's a moral issue, and there's been a power vacuum, and the Mujahadeen sponsored by Iran have jumped into the fray," said Mr. Emerson. "Perhaps American involvement will prevent the extremists from capturing the issue as some did in Bosnia."

Mr. Emerson also made available to the Forward material he is publishing in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Counterterrorism. The material includes a document titled "Kosova Task Force, USA," which lists a coalition of American Islamic groups with anti-Israel records, including the American Muslim Council amd the Council on American Islamic Relations.

By late Tuesday night, the Kosova Task Force's web site had posted a statement welcoming "the order for airstrikes, although they are too late for the thousands who have died and hundreds of thousands who have been made refugees." The site also said, "the airstrikes must be accompanied by immediate recognition of Kosovar self determination and independence."

The web site includes a listing of other causes including "Palestine," Algeria and Iraq. The site favors the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria and criticizes Turkey's government for cracking down on Islamic education and practices. As far as Israel is concerned, it states, "the Israelis have not lived up to any of their promises under any peace accords, and continue to expand settlements." The site provides links to the official web site of the Palestinian National Authority and to that of the Islamic Association for Palestine, which features a symbol showing all the land between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River as "Palestine."

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MIM: Yusuf claims he was giving charity to 9/11 victims in an attempt to diffuse attention from his contributions to Hamas. As you can below Bosnia 'charities' are closely linked to Al Qaeda and the Chicago based Benevolence International Foundation . The International Islamic Relief organisation is also cited as a conduit for money to Hamas . In 2001 the IIRO , which is under investigation by a Senate Committee investigating terrorism financing, cynically and perversely solicited donations under the guise of helping 9/11 victims .

Information about the Bosnia Task Force ties to Al Qaeda:

Bosnia, 1 degree of separation from Al-Qaeda

balkanpeace.org ^ | July 2003 | The Centre for Peace in the Balkans

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Bosnia Charities and Al-Qaeda

There have been longstanding concerns in the European and U.S. intelligence services that several charities that operated in Bosnia during and after that country's civil war were being used as a cover for Al-Qaeda activities.

In the spring of 2002, under the US supervision, Bosnian authorities raided several Islamic operating in Bosnia and were forced to closed three of them: the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (which was banned in Kenya after the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi), the Global Relief Foundation and Bosanska Idealna Futura (BIF) - a branch of the Chicago-based Benevolence International Foundation.

As a reminder, Enaam M. Arnaout, 40, head of the Benevolence International Foundation, has been in US custody. The indictment said a criminal enterprise that existed for at least a decade used charitable contributions from innocent Muslims, non-Muslims and corporations to support bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, Chechen rebels fighting the Russian army and armed violence in Bosnia. The Syrian-born Arnaout, who became a U.S. citizen nearly a decade ago, received his Bosnian passport in the mid-1990s.

The Bosnian raid uncovered a handwritten list of twenty wealthy donors sympathetic to Al-Qaeda. The list, referred to as "The Golden Chain," reveals both the names of the donors, and the names of the recipients. Seven of the payments were made to Osama bin Laden and "Hezb e Islami" (a militant group run by an Afghan warlord), while at least one donation to him was made by the "bin Laden brothers."

Intelligence investigators also want to know why some of the charity's money was transferred to a Bosnian company called "Ljiljan Commerce Group".

US Attorney General John Ashcroft said documents found in the Bosanska Idealna Futura (BIF) office in Bosnia have provided "chilling" evidence tying Enaam Arnaout directly to bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. He said the papers summarize the 1988 meeting at which the terror network was founded, and include a text of the network's oath of allegiance.

BIF had links to people involved in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, a plot to bomb US airlines, and a plan to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Philippines in 1995.

Also found in BIF's Bosnia offices were military manuals providing instruction on small arms and explosives, photographs of bin Laden and Arnaout and photos of Arnaout handling several weapons, including a shoulder-fired rocket launcher.

Also, joint US-Bosnian government probe connected the Saudi charity Talibah International Aid Association to terrorist funding and an Al-Qaeda front group. Taliban has been under investigation since shortly after 9/11 due to a foiled terror attack in Bosnia that has been connected to Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

This "charity group" was embedded with World Assembly of Muslim Youth [WAMY] - a suspected terrorist organization, led by Osama bin Laden relatives, brothers Abdullah and Omar bin Laden. The Bosnian Government later said that a charity with Abdullah bin Laden on its board had channeled money to Chechen guerrillas. The investigation into WAMY restarted two days after 9/11, and after the bin Laden brothers have left the US.

Philippines authorities believed that the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), whose Philippines branch was run by bin Laden's brother-in-law, was funneling funds to the Abu Sayyaf organization. The brother of bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was employed by IIRO in Albania, where he assisted Al-Qaeda's efforts in the Balkans. Reportedly, detailed minutes of a meeting between bin Laden associates on the stationery of these Saudi welfare agencies, captured in Bosnia, clarifies how organizations like IIRO were to be used by Al-Qaeda.

Israel found an IIRO payment schedule detailing how $280,000 USD was to be distributed to 14 different Hamas charities, thereby documenting, for the first time, the pattern of Saudi backing of terrorism. The head of the Canadian branch of IIRO admitted in court that "The Muslim World League, which is the mother of IIRO, is a fully government funded organization. In other words, I work for the government of Saudi Arabia."

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MIM: Poster for the terrorism funding Islamic Relief Organisation cynically exploiting the 9/11 attacks to solicit donations under the pretext of 'helping' the victims they helped to create.

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Islamic Relief Action Alert EMERGENCY AID FOR VICTIMS OF WASHINGTON D.C. AND NEW YORK TRAGEDY

RELIEF WORK Muslim Aid, an international aid agency, was established by Brother Yusuf Islam in 1985 in co-operation with other Muslim organisations, he being the founding Chairman.

Its aim was to alleviate poverty and provide relief for the victims of wars and natural disasters. In 1994 / 1995 the organisation helped some 400,000 people in need around the world, distributing around £2 million in aid.

Last year Brother Yusuf resigned his role as Chairman and left Muslim Aid, but is still very actively involved in Relief with his new charity Small Kindness which concentrate on orphans and families. He currently supports 2,500 orphans and children in Kosova and is supporting ‘100 – Homes' building project in Turkey.

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http://www.muslimaid.org/subpages.php?section=aboutus&sub=trustees&down=yes

Note that one of the trustees of Muslim Aid is Iqbal Sacranie the secretary general of The Muslim Council of Britain. It is significant the Yusuf Islam was the treasurer of the Muslim Council of Britain in 1998. The webmaster of Muslim AId according to the 1997 domain registration is Asaria Iqbal, the chairman of the MCB's finance and economic committee.

Trustees
uslim Aid's Board of Trustees is comprised of 15 respected members of the Muslim community, ensuring that our work is effective, fully accountable and true to the humanitarian spirit of Islam. To evaluate Muslim Aid projects, our Trustees make personal visits to field offices and partner organisations. Every two years the Board of Trustees elects a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and an Executive Committee.
	At the London headquarters of Muslim Aid a small team of professional staff, headed by Co-ordinator Ebrahimsa Mohamed, is responsible for the management and the effective running of the organisation. Moreover, local field staff like doctors and teachers is deployed in Somalia, Bangladesh and Sudan to provide direct relief to those in need.
Board of Trustees
Office Bearers:
Farooq Murad	- Chairman
Dr. Khadem Al-Rawi	- Vice Chairman
Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin	- Treasurer
Tanzeem Wasti	- Secretary
Executive Committee: (besides Office Bearers) Mehboob Kantharia AKM Abdussalam Dr Manazir Ahsan, MBE MH Faruqi Dr Abdul Majid Katme Iqbal AKM Sacranie, OBE Dr Tariq Yusuf Rajbee (Co-opted) Dr Muhammad Jafer Qureshi (Co-opted) Other Trustees: Zahid Pervez Ahmed von Denffer Dr Suhaib Hasan Ghulam Sarwar Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari

The basic facts of just what caused the conflict in ex-Yugoslavia are, still, not presented to the general public in the West...

Alija Izetbegovic Source: AP

To understand Bosnian Muslims one should understand their leader: self proclaimed "President of Bosnia", Mr. Alija Izetbegovic.

A few (very few) articles were writen in the western media about the fact: THE LEADER OF BOSNIAN MUSLIMS IS THE LEADING FIGURE IN THE MURKY ISLAM FUNDAMENTALIST WORLD.

"Islamic Affairs Analyst" (IAA) publishes studies about Islamic world since 1935. IAA is published 45 times a year, in Great Britain... With the beginning of the civil war in Bosnia, in 1992, they wrote:

Excerpts from issue of IAA entitled "MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISM IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA" published in 1992:

(Quote:)

There is a great reluctance in the West to recognize that the fighting in Bosnia is a resurgence of the conflict between Islam and Christendom which shaped five centuries of Balkan history.

Disbelief in the West regarding Muslim fundamentalism in Bosnia stems from several causes, among which there is a pervasive, compulsive, complacency which holds that things can never be as bad as they seem, hence European officialdom refused to believe that Hitler meant what he wrote in Mein Kampf.

President Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration, first published in 1970 when it earned him a prison sentence, demanded a fully-fundamentalist Muslim state in Bosnia without scope for non-Muslim institutions or any division between religion, politics, and economics. The book was republished in 1990 in Sarajevo (by Mala Muslimanska Biblioteka). It scathingly attacks Attaturk's reforms and holds up Pakistan as a model to be followed.

.... ....

Traditionally, Bosnians were among the most militant in the Muslim world. A ruling minority, they were proud of being the spearhead of the jihad into Europe, part of the two-pronged drive along Sava and Danube with Rome as its final objective. Occupation by the Habsburgs in 1878 caused some of them to emigrate, but others waited for fate to redeem them.

(end quote)

But the story goes on. Only fifty years ago Serbs were subject to a genocide in Bosnia. The geographic district, under Nazi occupation, was part of Nazi Independent State of Croatia...

For decades Encyclopedia Britannica had the following sentence when talking about WWII in Yugoslavia: "...IN BOSNIA... THE CROATIAN FASCISTS BEGAN A MASSACRE OF SERBS WHICH, IN THE WHOLE ANNALS OF WORLD WAR II, WAS SURPASSED FOR SAVAGERY ONLY BY THE MASS EXTERMINATION OF POLISH JEWS"!!!!!!!!

One can find the above sentence in all versions of Britannica from at least 1971 till 1987.

And who joined Nazi Croats in slaughtering the Serbs? You've guessed it: The Muslims!

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Edition 1990, Volume 2, Pages 706 and 707, entry Husseini, Hajj Amin Al <- The main Hitler's supporter among Palestinian Arabs...

(Quote:)

It so happened that Husseini made his contribution to the Axis war effort in his capacity as a Muslim, rather than as an Arab leader, by recruiting and organizing in RECORD TIME, during the spring of 1943, BOSNIAN MUSLIM BATTALIONS in Croatia comprising some twenty thousand men! These MUSLIM VOLUNTEER units, called Hanjar (Sword), were put in WAFFEN-SS, fought Yugoslav partisans in Bosnia, and carried out police and security duties in Hungary. THEY PARTICIPATED IN THE MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS IN BOSNIA and VOLUNTEERED TO JOIN IN THE HUNT FOR JEWS IN CROATIA... The Germans made a point of publicizing the fact that Husseini had flown from Berlin to Sarajevo for the sole purpose of giving his blessing to the Muslim army and inspecting its arms and training exercises.

(End quote)

A photograph, on page 704, shows al-Husseini inspecting Muslim troops in Bosnia.

Today, Muslims and Croats - united in hatred of Serbs, are once again at task of slaughtering Serbs. Having no knowledge of the history of the region, and having no sence of shame, "democratic" West is supporting the union (and the slaughter).

Western media presents him as a 'secular' President, but... It is not without reason that Mr. Izetbegovic got the highest praise from Islam Fundamentalist leaders of the world for SPREAD OF ISLAM.

THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MR. ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC IS ISLAM FUNDAMENTALIST

It is up to you to find eventual differences between Mr Izetbegovic's capital work and Ayatollah Khomeyni's speeches. I do not see any...

The following are excerpts from the book "The Islamic Declaration" ("Islamska deklaracija"), written by Mr. Alija Izetbegovic, current President of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The book was reprinted by "BOSNA", Sarajevo, 1990, 127 pages.

QUOTE:

"... Do we want the Muslim nations to cease moving in circles, to stop being dependent, backward and poverty-stricken;

do we want them to once again with a sure step climb the road of dignity and enlightment and to become masters of their own fate;

do we want the springs of courage, genius and virtue to come forth strongly once again;

then we must show the way which leads to that objective:

The implementation of Islam in all fields of individuals' personal lives, in family and in society, by renewal of the Islamic religious thought and creating a uniform Muslim community from Morocco to Indonesia. ..."

page 3

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"... A nation, and an individual, who has accepted Islam is incapable of living and dying for another ideal after that fact. It is unthinkable for a Muslim to sacrifice himself for any tzar or ruler, no matter what his name may be, or for the glory of any nation, party or some such, because acting on the strongest Muslim instinct he recognizes in this a certain type of godlessness and idolatry. A Muslim can die only with the name of Allah on his lips and for the glory of Islam, or he may run away from the battlefield. ..."

page 4

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"... Muslim nations will never accept anything that is explicitly against Islam, because Islam here is not merely a faith and the law, Islam has become love and compassion. He who rises against Islam will reap nothing but hate and resistance. ..."

page 17

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"... In perspective, there is but one way out in sight: creation and gathering of a new intelligence which thinks and feels along Islamic lines. This intelligence would then raise the flag of the Islamic order and together with the Muslim masses embark into action to implement this order. ..."

page 18

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"... The shortest definition of the Islamic order defines it as a unity of faith and law, upbringing and force, ideals and interests, spiritual community and state, free will and force. As a synthesis of these components, the Islamic order has two fundamental premises: an Islamic society and Islamic authority. The former is the essence, and the latter the form of an Islamic order. An Islamic society without Islamic power is incomplete and weak; Islamic power without an Islamic society is either a utopia or violence.

A Muslim generally does not exist as an individual. If he wishes to live and survive as a Muslim, he must create an environment, a community, an order. He must change the world or be changed himself. History knows of no true Islamic movement which was not at the same time a political movement as well. This is because Islam is a faith, but also a philosophy, a set of moral codes, an order of things, a style, an atmosphere - in a nutshell, an integral way of life. ..."

page 19

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"... The first and foremost of such conclusions is surely the one on the incompatibility of Islam and non-Islamic systems. There can be no peace or coexistence between the "Islamic faith" and non- Islamic societies and political institutions. ... Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of any strange ideology on its own turf. Therefore, there is no question of any laicistic principles, and the state should be an expression and should support the moral concepts of the religion. ..."

page 22

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" Islam contains the principle of ummet, i.e. the tendency towards unification of all Muslims into a single community - a spiritual, cultural and political community. Islam is not a nationality, it is above nationalities. ..."

page 27

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"... The upbringing of the nation, and especially the mass media - the press, TV and film - should be in the hands of people whose Islamic moral and intellectual authority is undisputed. ...

... Islamic renewal cannot be initiated without a religious, and cannot be successfully continued and concluded without a political revolution."

page 32

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"... Establishing of an Islamic order is thus shown as the ultimate act of democracy, because it means the implementation of the deepest desires of the Muslim nations and common man. One thing is certain: no matter what a part of the rich and the intelligence wants, the common man wants Islam and living in his Islamic community. ..."

page 33

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"... In the struggle for an Islamic order all methods are permitted, except one - except crime. No-one has the right to smear the beautiful name of Islam and this struggle by uncontrolled and excessive use of violence. ..."

page 37

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"... Islamic order may be implemented only in countries where Muslims represent the majority of the population. Without this majority, the Islamic order is reduced to authority only (because the other element is lacking - the Islamic society), and may turn into violence. ..."

page 37

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"... the Islamic movement should and must start taking over the power as soon as it is morally and numerically strong enough to not only overthrow the existing non-Islamic, but also to build up a new Islamic authority. ..."

page 43

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"... Pakistan was a general rehearsal of introducing Islamic order under modern conditions and on the present stage of development. ...

... The conclusions from the twenty-odd year of Pakistan's existence are clear enough. They are:

First, the struggle for Islamic order and a general reconstruction of the Muslim society can be successfully conducted only by experienced and seasoned individuals, aligned into a staunch and homogenous organization. This organization is no political party from the arsenal of the Western democracy; it is a movement based on Islamic ideology and with clear moral and ideological criteria of belonging;

Second, the struggle for an Islamic order today is a struggle to implement the essence of Islam, and this means that in practice one must ensure religious and moral upbringing of the people and provide for basic elements of social justice. At this time, forms are of secondary importance; and

Third, the functions of the Islamic republic are not to primarily declare equality of all men and brotherhood of all Muslims, but to struggle for some of these high moral principles in practice. The awakened Islam should in every community take into its own hands the flag for a more just social order and to clearly state that in struggling for Islam another war is being declared as well, the one against ignorance, injustice and poverty, a war without compromises and setbacks. ..."

pages 45-46

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"... In one of the thesis for an Islamic order today we have stated that it is a natural function of the Islamic order to gather all Muslims and Muslim communities throughout the world into one. Under present conditions, this desire means a struggle for creating a great Islamic federation from Morocco to Indonesia, from the tropical Africa to the Central Asia. ..."

page 46

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"... Panislamism always came from the very heart of the Muslim peoples, nationalism was always imported stuff. ..."

page 49

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"... But, under the leadership of Zionists, started an action in Palestine which is not only inhumane and ruthless but also shortsighted and adventuresome. This politics takes in account only temporary ratio of power and forgets about overall ratio of power between Jews and Muslims in the world. This politics in Palestine is a provocation to all Muslims of the world. Jerusalem is not only a question of Palestinians, neither is it a question of Arabs only. It is a question of all the Muslim nations. TO KEEP JERUSALEM, THE JEWS WOULD HAVE TO DEFEAT ISLAM AND THE MUSLIMS, AND THAT - THANK GOD - IS OUTSIDE THEIR POWER."

page 53

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"... We would like to distinguish between Jews and Zionists, but only if Jews themselves find strength to find the difference. We hope that the military victories, which they had against quarrelling Arab regimes, (not against Arabs or against Muslims) will not blur their minds. We hope that they will eliminate confrontation which they made by them- selves, so the new road is open to a life on the common ground of Palestine. If they, though, continue on the road of arrogance, which is more likely, then for the whole Islam movement, and FOR ALL MUSLIMS THERE IS BUT ONE SOLUTION: TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT, TO STRENGTHEN AND BROADEN IT, FROM DAY TO DAY, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, NO MATTER THE VICTIMS AND NO MATTER THE TIME it may last, until they are forced to RETURN EVERY INCH OF THE OCCUPIED LAND. EVERY NEGOTIATION AND EVERY COMPROMISE ON THIS FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE FOR OUR BROTHERS IN PALESTINE, WILL BE A TREASON WHICH MAY DESTROY THE VERY CORE OF THE MORAL SYSTEM OF OUR WORLD.

These are not new laws of our new Islam politics toward Christians and Jews, not new laws dictated by the new political situation. They are just the practical conclusions taken from the Islamic recognition of Christians and Jews which come right from the Qu'ran (Qu'ran, 29/45, 2/136, 5/47-49)

pages 53-54

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Photo copies of the relevant pages of the book (in Serbo-Croatian) are available.

Extensive quotes from the book were also presented in French periodical "FIGARO", on August 26, 1992 under title: "L'ORDRE ISLAMIQUE" SELON ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC

See also:

• British: "The daily telegraph" May 11, 1992: "Conflict could lay foundations for Islamic state in Europe"
• Canadian: "Globe and Mail" October 17, 1992, page A10: "Media reports from Bosnia: A mixture of Outright lies, Staged events and untold stories".
• "Jerusalem Post", August 11, 1993, text by Yohanan Ramati, Director of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defence: "Don't cry for Bosnian Moslems"
• British: "Sunday Times", August 30, 1992 , page A1: "Arabs join in Bosnia battle"
• American: "Newsweek", October 5, 1992, page 52: "Help from holy warriors (Inside a secret military camp: how mujahedin fighters are training Bosnia's muslims"
• "The European", february 4, 1993: "How Iran is arming Bosnia's Muslims"
• London: Times, October 21, 1994: "Disciples of holy war answer call to fight and die (The presence of Mujahedin fighters from around the world on Bosnian batterfields is unnerving the West)"
• Washington Times, June 2, 1994, page 1: "Iranians move into Bosnia to terrorize Serbs"
• Washington Post, May 13, 1994: "Iran ships material for arms to Bosnians"

TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE. NATO bombed Christian children in order to help Islam Fundamentalist and get a stronghold in the heart of Europe... Serbs were expelled from Sarajevo, city they founded more than thousand years ago!