| In the News: Five local youth in Pakistan |
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| In the News - In the News |
| Written by Administrator |
| Thursday, 14 January 2010 08:57 |
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----------------------- Click these links to catch up on this case and the vast coverage it is receiving in the media: The sequence of events Dec. 9, 2009 : Fox News reported that the youth had been arrested. Dec. 11, 2009: The youth were just regular folks, reported CNN. Dec. 15, 2009: A Pakistani court officially approved the arrests, according to the New York Times. Dec. 15, 2009: The deportation of the five youth to America requires a judge’s permission, according to the Washington Post. Jan. 5, 2009: The youth told authorities they were not planning any attacks, per the Post.
----------------------- Analysis of the Case Dec. 10, 2009 The youth don’t fit the profile of those arrested on similar charges, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Dec. 12, 2009 Pakistani officials said the youth had been in contact with terrorists for months, according to the Washington Post. Dec. 12, 2009 The arrests are a wake-up call, the Washington Times writes. Dec. 12, 2009 Reuters asks: Are these arrests part of a trend? Dec. 20, 2009 The Associated Press christens the term ‘Jihadi cool.’ ----------------------- The Fallout Dec. 16, 2009 A guest columnist at OregonLive.com urges the public not to generalize Muslim youth. Dec. 17, 2009 Surprise, surprise. Muslim Americans don’t support terrorism, Pew Research shows. Dec. 20, 2009 The FBI balances two worlds: reaching out to Muslims and combating terrorism, the Washington Post reports. Jan. 6, 2010 A new report by scholars at Duke University and the University of North Carolina documents ways to curb terrorist uprising within American Muslim communities (link is a pdf file). Jan. 12, 2010 How can leaders and politicians move forward? ----------------------- CAIR’s news conference (part 1) CAIR’s news conference (part 2)
CAIR’s news conference (part 3)
----------------------- ICNA Center press conference
----------------------- AP: Five youth make court appearance
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It is a twisting of words by interest groups. it reminds me the Hadith of Rasool allah , "at the end of time there will be so much confusion and chaos, that the one who is Momin in the morning become Kafir in the evening and the one who is Kafir in the morning would become a Momin."
It is hard to keep quite and it is hard to justify certain actions by Muslims. May Allah guide us true Islam and save us from the traps of Shaitaan.