Tuesday 19 November 2013

Recognizing the SIGNS . . .


SitiWanMahani -  Sheikh Imran Hosein Rahmatullahi 'alaih lived in New York for 10 years during which time he served as the Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations of Greater New York.

He lectured on Islam in several American and Canadian universities, colleges, churches, synagogues, prisons, community halls, etc. He also participated in many inter-faith dialogues with Christian and Jewish scholars while representing Islam in USA.

He was the Imam, for sometime, at Masjid Dar Al ‘Qur'an in Long Island, New York. He also led the weekly Juma'ah prayers and delivered the sermon at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan once a month for 10 years continuously.


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‘Tarik balik Nobel KeAmanan’: NGO Russian letupan Obama banyak ‘membunuh orang’ pengakuan . . .

U.S. President Barack Obama. (AFP Photo/Michael Francis McElroy – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - 2 kumpulan tentera utama berkaitan, Pegawai Rusia dan IBU Askar (Soldiers’ Mothers), telah ditangani Jawatankuasa Nobel dengan permintaan untuk menilai kenya-taan tidak berperikemanusiaan yang dibuat oleh Presiden Amerika Syarikat yang merujuk kepada peperangan Drone.

“Saya ingin membawa kepada perhatian anda bahawa ahli-ahli organisasi kami terkejut dan marah dengan kenyataan yang dibuat oleh pemenang Hadiah Nobel dan Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama (the statement made by the Nobel Prize laureate and US President Barack Obama) yang dipetik dalam ‘Double Down’ buku oleh Mark Halperin dan John Heilemann,” kata ketua ‘Pegawai-pegawai Rusia NGO semua – rasmi Rusia, Anton Tsvetkov, telah menulis dalam surat itu kepada jawatankuasa itu, seperti yang dipetik oleh laman berita Infox.ru.

“Sementara membincangkan penggunaan pesawat dalam operasi ‘Counterterrorist’ dalam sidang tertutup dengan pembantunya, Barack Obama sinis menyatakan bahawa adalah beliau ‘sangat bagus pada membunuh orang” (‘very good at killing people’). Sehubungan dengan ini kami meminta anda untuk memberi penilaian undang-undang dan moral rasmi Barack kata-kata Obama berhubung dengan keserasian mereka dengan tajuk yang tinggi, Hadiah Nobel, Nobel Keamanan,” tambah aktivis Rusia.

Tsvetkov kepada pemberita pada sidang akhbar di Moscow yang profesional dalam orga-nisasi tentera beliau adalah kuat terhadap penggunaan pesawat Drone dalam pertem-puran sebagai senjata ini sering menyebabkan kecederaan di kalangan orang2 awam. Beliau mendakwa Pegawai Rusia mempunyai maklumat membuktikan bahawa Obama sendiri membenarkan penggunaan pertempuran Drone semasa misi di Pakistan, Yaman, Afghanistan, Somalia dan negara-negara lain.

Pengerusi Jawatankuasa IBU Askar’, Flora Salikhovskaya, berkata kumpulan itu telah menyokong alamat ini sambil menambah bahawa menyelesaikan semua masalah melalui kuasa tentera telah menjadi tanda dagangan Barack Obama.

“Sebagai seorang IBU dan seorang peguam Hak Asasi Manusia, saya tidak dapat mema-hami memandu beliau. Saya tidak dapat memahami kenyataan oleh Presiden sebuah negara yang dia boleh membunuh orang. Obama mesti sama ada meminta maaf sebelum semua orang untuk kenyataan atau memberi [Peace] hadiah kembali (or give the [Peace] prize back) dan mengakui bahawa dia masih belum berkembang sehingga mempunyai tajuk yang tinggi,”  katanya.

Seorang ahli yang tinggi diletakkan daripada Pegawai kumpulan Rusia, Aleksandr Mikhailov, berkata bahawa di Rusia walaupun penembak tepat tentera tidak pernah bercakap mengenai kemahiran mereka dalam pembunuhan.

“Mereka biasanya mengatakan bahawa mereka bekerja dengan sasaran. Satu lagi tidak perlu bercakap megah perkara itu!” Kata Mikhailov sidang akhbar.

Kedua-dua pemimpin NGO Rusia berkata mereka berharap ahli-ahli Jawatankuasa Nobel akan mengendahkan surat mereka. Mereka menambah bahawa ramai pakar telah menya-takan bahawa Hadiah Keamanan diserahkan kepada Obama adalah jenis pendahuluan yang diberikan sebagai balasan kepada janji-janji dan kenyataan akhbar yang dibuat semasa kempen pilihan raya sebelumnya. Tetapi dalam realiti perbuatan pemimpin Amerika Syarikat bercanggah dengan retorik yang lebih awal dan ini bermakna bahawa ‘terlebih dahulu’ boleh dibatalkan, aktivis mengariskan.

Sejak mengambil alih jawatan pada tahun 2008, dan memenangi Hadiah Nobel Keamanan pada tahun 2009, Obama telah meluaskan penggunaan pesawat dan pembunuhan yang disasarkan di negara-negara asing. Biro Kewartawanan Siasatan di London sebelum ini melaporkan bahawa pemimpin Amerika Syarikat telah membenarkan 326 serangan di Pakistan sahaja. Ia juga menganggarkan bahawa , sejak George W. Bush mengambil alih jawatan bagi penggal ke-2 pada tahun 2004, serangan telah membunuh mana-mana sahaja di antara 2,500 dan 3,600 individu, dan antara 416 dan 948 daripada individu-individu adalah orang2 awam

White House mendakwa bilangan orang awam dibunuh oleh pesawat adalah jauh lebih rendah daripada itu, tetapi ia tidak pernah mengeluarkan angka sendiri. Obama sendiri wajar program berdengung awal tahun ini, dengan mengatakan bahawa ia menghalang kematian lebih orang awam di tangan pengganas.

Kedudukan rasmi pihak Amerika Syarikat adalah bahawa semua ‘lelaki tentera umur’ dalam zon serangan boleh dianggap pejuang dan dirawat dengan sewajarnya.

‘Retract Peace Prize’: Russian NGOs blast Obama 
over ‘killing people’ confession . . .

Two major military-related groups, Officers of Russia and Soldiers’ Mothers, have addressed the Nobel Committee with a request to evaluate the inhumane statements made by the US president in reference to drone warfare.

“I would like to bring to your attention that the members of our organization were surprised and outraged by the statement made by the Nobel Prize laureate and US President Barack Obama quoted in the book ‘Double Down’ by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann,” the head of the all-Russian NGO ‘Officers of Russia’, Anton Tsvetkov, wrote in the letter to the committee, as quoted by the Infox.ru news site.

“While discussing the use of drones in counterterrorist operations in a closed conference with his aides, Barack Obama cynically noted that he was ‘very good at killing people.’ In connection with this we ask you to give an official legal and moral assessment of Barack Obama’s words in relation to their compatibility with the high title of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate,” the Russian activist added.

Tsvetkov told reporters at a press conference in Moscow that military professionals in his organization were strongly against the use of drone aircraft in combat as this weapon often causes casualties among civilians. He claims the Officers of Russia possess information proving that Obama personally sanctioned the combat use of drones during missions in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia and other countries.

The chairwoman of the Soldiers’ Mothers Committee, Flora Salikhovskaya, said  that her group was supporting this address adding that solving all problems through military force has become Barack Obama’s trademark.

“Being a mother and a Human Rights advocate, I cannot understand his drive. I cannot understand the statement by the president of a nation that he can kill people. Obama must either apologize before everybody for his statement or give the [Peace] prize back and admit that he has not yet grown up to bear this high title,” she noted.

A high placed member of the Officers of Russia group, Aleksandr Mikhailov, noted that in Russia even military snipers never boasted about their proficiency in killing.

“They usually say that they work with targets. One should never brag of such things!” Mikhailov told a news conference.

Both Russian NGO leaders said they hope the Nobel Committee members will heed their letter. They added that many experts had noted that the Peace Prize handed to Obama was a sort of advance given in return for promises and press statements made during the previous election campaign. But in reality the deeds of the US leader contradict his earlier rhetoric and this means that the ‘advance’ can be rescinded, the activists underlined.

Since taking office in 2008, and winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, Obama has greatly expanded the use of drones and targeted killings in foreign nations. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London earlier reported that the US leader had authorized 326 strikes in Pakistan alone. It also estimates that, since George W. Bush took office for his second term in 2004, the strikes have killed anywhere between 2,500 and 3,600 individuals, and that between 416 and 948 of those individuals were civilians.

The White House claims the number of civilians killed by drones is much lower than that, but it has never released its own figure. Obama himself justified the drone program earlier this year, saying that it prevented the deaths of even more civilians at the hands of terrorists.

The official position of the US side is that all ‘military-age males’ within a strike zone should be considered combatants and treated accordingly.


'Mengapa kamu membunuh keluarga saya?' Mangsa Drone Yaman, Rakyat Awam panggilan Amerika Syarikat untuk akaun . . .



SitiWanMahani - Yaman adalah salah satu daripada sasaran yang paling sukar yang melanda kempen Drone maut Amerika. Tetapi walaupun janji Presiden Obama lebih telus, hanya sedikit yang diketahui tentang siapa sebenarnya yang dibunuh di sana. RT Lucy Kafanov dapat mencapai satu kampung Yaman, di mana masyarakat telah dilanda kesan serangan berdengung.

'Why you kill my family?' Civilian Yemeni drone victims 
call US to account . . .

Yemen is one of the hardest-hit targets of America's deadly drone campaign. But despite President Obama's promise of more transparency, relatively little is known about who is actually being killed there. RT's Lucy Kafanov was able to reach one Yemeni village, where a community has been devastated by the effects of drone strikes.


Italy Mengisytiharkan darurat di SARDINIA Selepas banjir maut . . .



SitiWanMahani - Pihak berkuasa Itali telah mengisytiharkan darurat di Sardinia selepas taufan melanda pulau Mediterranean. Sekurang-kurangnya 16 orang diketahui telah mati dan beratus-ratus telah dipindahkan dari rumah mereka selepas angin sehingga 125 kilometer sejam dan lambaran hujan membawa kemusnahan.

Beberapa orang dilaporkan hilang. Di bandar timur laut Olbia, Datuk Bandar berkata banjir secara tiba-tiba telah pecah “seperti bom”. Langit membuang seperti hujan banyak dalam satu jam sebagai jatuh pada Milan dalam tempoh 6 bulan, tambah Gianni Giovanelli.

Datuk Bandar itu berkata rumah-rumah di seluruh kawasan itu telah ditinggalkan separuh tenggelam oleh banjir dan penyelamat masih mencari mangsa seberapa mungkin. “Kami hanya mendapat seorang kanak-kanak mati yang kami telah mencari sepanjang malam bagi,” katanya kepada televisyen Itali.

Sebuah keluarga Brazil 4 dilaporkan lemas selepas bawah tanah mereka diratakan dipe-nuhi dengan air. Di tempat lain kereta telah dihanyutkan, rumah ditenggelami air dan jambatan runtuh sungai melimpah.

Itali Perdana Menteri Enrico Letta dipanggil sebagai “tragedi Negara”, berkata keadaan darurat bermakna sumber-sumber tambahan akan dibuat segera sedia untuk sampai ke kawasan terjejas.

Italy declares state of emergency in Sardinia after deadly floods

Italian authorities have declared a state of emergency in Sardinia after a cyclone struck the Mediterranean island. At least 16 people are known to have died and hundreds have been moved from their homes after winds of up to 125 kilometres an hour and sheets of rain brought devastation.

Several people are reported missing. In the northeastern town of Olbia, the mayor said sudden flooding had burst "like a bomb". The skies dumped as much rain in an hour as falls on Milan in six months, Gianni Giovanelli added.

The mayor said houses across the area had been left half submerged by the floods and rescuers were still searching for possible victims. "We've just found a dead child we had been searching all night for," he told Italian television.

A Brazilian family of four were reported drowned after their basement flat filled with water. Elsewhere cars were swept away, homes were flooded and bridges collapsed as rivers burst their banks.

Italy's prime minister Enrico Letta called it a "national tragedy", saying the state of emergency meant extra resources would be made immediately available to reach affected areas.

Washington, Ill, terjejas teruk oleh Tornado, Hail . . .



SitiWanMahani - Kawasan keseluruhan dalam satu bandar telah musnah oleh cuaca yang teruk. (Washington, Ill., hit hard by Tornadoes, Hail. Entire neighborhoods in one town were completely destroyed by severe weather).

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