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Editorial
Whither the US war
Isthe United States any closer to winning its war on
terror than it was in 2001? This question has been haunting
more and more people especially after the recent reports of
resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the seemingly unending
strikes by suicide bombers in Iraq. |
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Renewed insurgency in Afghanistan
As the United States is bogged down in Iraq, the NATO
forces have been facing renewed insurgency in Afghanistan; far
from being vanquished, the Taliban have been aggressive comeback.
They have been attacking the Afghan and NATO troops in the Pakhtoon
dominated southeastern portion of the country. The insurgents
have been using rockets, and guns in surprise attacks.
International Religious Conflicts and Necessity to found
the Centre of World Religions for Peace
Mr. Mir Nawaz Khan Marwat, International President of W.C.R.P.,
Moderator of A.C.R.P. and Assistant Secretary General of World
Muslim Congress attended twenty years celebration of founders
of Korean Conference of Religion and Peace (K.C.R.P.) and thirtiest
anniversary of A.C.R.P. in Seoul from 22-23 Oct. 2006 and presided
over the said functions. He was chief guest in the international
seminar held in Deajon, South Korea on 24th Oct 2006. The title
of seminar was International Religious Conflicts and Necessity
to found the Centre of World Religions for Peace. The speech
of Mr Marwat delivered there is reproduced:
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2006 ISSUE |
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Editorial
American predicament in Iraq
The stalemate in Iraq is now having its effects in
the US. The American people are getting impatient with the policies
of the Bush administration as regards Iraq and the rest of the
Middle East.
WMC Secretary General urges for more efforts to project the
issue of Al-Quds
Secretary General of World Muslim Congress (Motamar Al-Alam
Al-Islami), Raja Muhammad Zafarul Haq, has stressed the need
for more efforts to project the issue of Al-Quds Al-Sharif in
a wide focus to draw world attention to it. |
Aug-Sep
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WMC's President attends International Seminar
on Dialogue for Peace and Reconciliation
By Dr. Mozammel Haque
In the civil war and ethnic cleansing in both Rwanda
and Burundi, Muslims avoided the fighting, persecution and ethnic
cleansing and they were protecting the innocent people, giving
them shelter and sharing with them their own homes and places.
In both the countries President of the Rwanda and also the President
of Burundi told the Muslims that this is the time you show that
Islam is for peace and understanding and protection of innocent
people and so on. This is the time for Dawah, to my mind, said
Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef, President of the World Muslim Congress
at a one-day International Seminar on Dialogue for Peace and
Reconciliation, organised by World Muslim Congress in collaboration
with Muslim Unity in Burundi. |
July
2006 ISSUE |
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WMC’s plea to UN, OIC and Arab League
for urgent steps to halt Israeli aggression
Raja Muhammad Zafarul Haq, Secre-tary General of World
Muslim Congress, hasurged upon the UN, OIC and the Arab League
to take immediate practical steps to halt the wanton bloodshed
in the Middle East. |
June
2006 ISSUE |
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Dr. Nasseef presides over MWL Workshop
MWL considers the establishment
of International Zakat Fund
I support the establishment of an International Zakat
Fund (IZF), said Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Ali, President of the Jeddah-based
Islamic Development Bank in response to a suggestion made by
one of the participants in the Workshop on Economic Unity Among
Muslims chaired by Dr. Abdullah Omar Nasseef, former Secretary
General of the Muslim World League, Ex-Deputy Speaker of the
Saudi Shoura Council and presently President of the World Muslim
Congress (Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami). |
May
2006 ISSUE |
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New wave of Islamophobia, Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq,
Syria and Iran situation discussed
Motamar asks world leadership to condemn blasphemous cartoons,
calls for religious harmony, common code of ethics
TMW Report
Islamabad: Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami (World Muslim
Congress) has urged upon the world leadership to condemn the
sacrilegious act of publication of blasphemous cartoons by a
number of western papers and evolve a common code of ethics
against blasphemy of any prophet in the interest of religious
harmony and peaceful co-existence. |
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WMC President Dr. Nasseef on stampede in
Hajj 2006 and suggestions to avoid it
This year stampede during Hajj which took some 350
lives and injured hundreds of pilgrims became a very agonizing
issue. Different people and different papers have expressed
their own viewpoints. I had the privilege and opportunity to
meet two of the British Muslims who are not only the leader
of the British Muslim community but also led British Hajj Delegation,
Lord Adam Patel of Blackburn and Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham.
I also had the opportunity to meet Dr. Abdullah Omar Nasseef,
President World Muslim Congress who has performed Hajj for more
than 20 times and who was also present at this year’s
Hajj. These three great personalities were there at Mina on
the 12th day of Zil-Hajj when the incident of stampede took
place. They have given their experiences, viewpoints and suggestions
for improving the situation. |
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Editorial
Situation in Afghanistan
A big achievement of the US-backed Karzai government
in Afghanistan has been the election of a 351 member parliament
which was sworn in on December 19 last. It is for the first
time in 30 years that an election was held in that war-ravaged
country. But as a foreign news agency sarcastically remarked,
the parliament has its share of warlords and drug barons. That
perhaps explains why there is still no peace in Afghanistan.
In fact, despite the induction of the parliament cases of violence
and terrorism continue unabated. In addition, there have been
quite a few cases of suicide bombing, which is a new phenomenon
in the country. |
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Kashmir dispute: a constant threat to peace in South
Asia
Kashmir has often been described as the nuclear flashpoint
of South Asia; and rightly so, because it continues to be a
disputed territory between two nuclear powers- Muslim Pakistan
and the predominantly Hindu India. |
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Genocide of Kashmiri Muslims by India
Unknown to most people in the Muslim world, India has
been carrying on a systematic genocide of Muslims in Kashmir
who oppose the Indian occupation of their homeland. Since 1989
when opposition to the Indian military occupation turned into
an armed uprising in Kashmir, more than 100,000 Muslims have
been martyred by the Indian troops. |
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Saudi mediation between Hamas and Fatah
T he successful mediation between the Hamas and Fatah,
the two feuding factions of the Palestinians, by King Abdullah
of Saudi Arabia can be described as a master stroke of diplomacy
which would go a long way in helping the Palestinians struggle
for liberation and restoration of their homeland.
The initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques not
only saved the lives of many Muslims which were being lost at
the hands of fellow Muslims in the bloody fighting between the
two Palestinian factions, but it also nipped in the bud the
conspiracy of Israel and its mentors to keep the Palestinians
divided and weak. The crowning success of Saudi diplomacy has
been formation of the Hamas-Fatah unity government at a time
when there was talk of collapse of the Palestinian government
and call for another election in the territory, at the behest
of Israel the western powers who want to keep the Hamas out
of power with the two major factions at each other throats.
The unity government has frustrated the designs of the enemies
and strengthened the resolve of the Palestinians in particular
and of the Muslim Ummah as a whole, to wrest the Arab lands
including al-Quds from the Zionists.
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