Mohamed Shnewer: May 22, 2012 (No Halal Food, No Salah in Jama, and continuous Harassment)
07 JUN May 22, 2012
In The Name Of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
Assalamu Alaikum,
I appreciate your concern and continous effort to expose the conditions in the CMU. As for the justification given to prevent us from Halal food, they tell us that the vegetarian or Kosher trays are sufficient to meet my religious requirements. Which is of course a frivilous and false claim because we are’nt forbidden from eating meat, and the Kosher tray is a far cry from Halal. We have given them many different options on ways to provide us with Halal, yet they have refused every option we’ve put on the table. We told them we’ll buy it our selves, our families will provide the Halal food, the Mosques will provide it, but despite our best efforts we haven’t been able to get Halal food.
As for the congregational prayers, they have no excuse for it except that they hate and discriminate against Islam and Muslims. They allow every other type of congregation whether it be religious, social, or learning. They have blocked any effort for any Islamic learning as well. The Hunger Strike took place because of the ongoing harrasment and hostilities of the administration against the Muslim inmates. There were even non-Muslim inmates that participated because they were unhappy with the way the administration has been harrasing the Muslims. We came off of it, Alhamdulillah we were able to get some of our issues resolved. The harrasment is still ongoing, and we are working very hard to try to file a proper lawsuit in this matter.
Please highlight the facts that we aren’t being provided Halal food, congregational prayer, the ongoing harrasment of Muslims’, they are even trying to stop us from praying the Fajr prayer in our cell alone while we’re locked in. These are some of the issues I hope you can highlight. I’m not sure when the next time is that I can email, because I have been given two frivilous incident reports in retaliation for me trying to expose our situation in “GITMO North”.
May your efforts be fruitful. Thank you very much for your continued concern and effort over the conditions here.
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I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground. - Umar ibn khattab(Ra)
True, it is to do with credibility- my point is that if you or some other on the forum read anything you don't like, or as you say negative- your own instinct is to instantly disbelieve it, whatever it's credibility.
With this photo I don't think anyone said they disbelieved it they just wanted to know what it was about, but you immediately became defensive just because they asked.
This is no more instinct than the other thread to do with your experience! How about you prove what you read there accurate and what you see here faulty? Maybe then even you can learn how to distinguish between passive transmission and active creation. Thus you've no point and if you did you wouldn't be on both threads trying to deflect from being otherwise so self insightful!
Other than that only Glo knows in her heart though she may hide her motive from many & fool them as to her purpose here.. Thankfully God has given me the ability to cut through the crap and I have known her long enough to know how she drops her subtle bombs. If she's so concerned for the Palis maybe she can actively protest that the UNICEF ration & medicine is given the children of GAZA through Zionists amidst a whole of host of atrocities until they're dead & buried and never seen or heard of again rather than comment with 'that seems cruel' - Maybe if it were one of her kids it wouldn't 'Seem' but would rouse more than a suspicion of seeming in her 'motherly' heart. Language barrier (I know-I know) which rears itself in so similar occasions. Bottom line is I don't post to gain your (non-Muslim) approval or for your insight or to understand the world through your eyes.. I have cut that cord long ago!
all the best
Last edited by جوري; 06-10-2012 at 03:36 PM.
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
I feel bad for the kid and I understand the Palestinian desire to obtain their land. But who on earth started this war? I understand some of the violence but I fail to understand the outside violence from places like Iraq and all the way to Afghanistan towards Israel . Is this some sort of "pack mentality"? "You hurt a Muslim I don't even know so I am at war with you".
NAMASTE
Your perception needs work: You shoulda wrote "You harm an innocent, so we are against you" - this is more reflective of Muslim thought. You know bro Freak, when one part of the body hurts, the whole body hurts... we are one family. This is something the rest of the world does not realise... and when they wake up to that fact, they WILL shake in their boots, and find it hard to breathe.
On that day, we will march forth, black banners and all.
Not neccessarily - the average of black and white is gray, the average of cold and hot is lukewarm, the average of lies and truth is what?
Hi Mustafa
I have thought some more about this statement, and I am not sure that it follows.
The problem we are talking about is discerning the truth from the vast amount of conflicting media coverage we receive. Yes, clearly the truth is out there - somebody has experienced it, somebody has witnessed it. But by the time it has gone through the media, footage has been cut, interpretations have been added, the truth which arrives in our sitting rooms may not be the truth any longer ...
Black and white, hot and cold are measurable facts.
The truth is much more difficult to discern.
I might even tell events which I have witnessed myself differently - depending how long ago it happened and how well I remember it, depending on how I am feeling about it at the time, depending on who I am speaking to ...
No, I think the truth is a very tricky thing to capture!
All the more important to really get as much information as we can to build as full a picture as we can. And to resist the temptation to just run with the first piece of propaganda we are fed and jump on the emotional bandwagon! (This applies to all sides)
Peace glo
Here I stand.
I can do no other.
May God help me.
Amen.
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