So far James Caspell, Farid Bakht (possibly) and I are going to the conference from GL. Jim Jepps from Cambridge is also attending as a Green Party delegate - we are entitled to four.
At last night's London Fed meeting, the Fed voted overwhelmingly to continue our affiliation to STWC. There is also supposed to be discussion about this in other regions. Can those based there report back to us on that?
Joseph Healy
Stop the War Coalition Steering Group Delegate
STOP THE WAR COALITION NEWSLETTER
No. 1091 20 April 2009
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The conference will be a chance to discuss the state of the War on Terror and the next steps for the anti war movement In a heightened political atmosphere generated by the G20 protests, the movement for Gaza and police attacks on protestors, the conference will be addressed by key figures of the movement.
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Latest additions to the list of speakers include DAUD ABDULLAH, Deputy General Secretary of Muslim Council of Britain, currently under attack from the government for his statements in support of the Palestinians and WALTER WOLFGANG ex-Labour Party NEC.
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Mr Abdullah'S story,told at the Regent’s Park Mosque in 2002:
"Dear brothers and sisters, when I see gatherings like these, numbers of Muslims coming together on occasions like these, it reminds me of events which took place in Medina just around the advent of our prophet.
You know, in Medina, there were people of the book – Christians and Jews. The Jewish tribes in Medina, they used to say to the Muslims, that there will come a prophet, a prophet will be raised in the Arab peninsula, and we, the Jewish tribes, we will join with this prophet to fight against you Arab tribes.
So these Arab tribes, Avs and Hazrach, who constituted the majority, they met the prophet at the outskirts of Medina, around the eleventh year of the hijrah (migration to Medina), and then he told them that he was the messenger of Allah. So the Avs and Hazrach, they knew that this was the individual that the Jewish tribes were speaking about. So rather than wait until the Jewish tribes joined with the messenger and fight against them, they took the initiative and became Muslims before the Jews could do so.
Now what I am trying to say here is that the animosity, the hostility that was meted out against the Arab tribes in Medina by the Jews unintentionally made the Arab tribes move closer and more readily to Islam.
And that is exactly what is happening today. The more they persecute the Muslims, in Palestine, in Chechnya, in Afghanistan, in Gujarat, in Eritrea, in Sudan, wherever Muslims have been persecuted, this pressure upon Muslims is drawing the ummah closer together.
I can give you another example. You see, in Medina, what happened, there was this Jewish king called al Fityun. Every Arab tribe from Avs and Hazrach who married, this king, he had to deflower the bride as a matter of custom. The Arab had to bring his bride, on the night of the wedding, to this Jewish king al Fityun. This was the kind of viciousness, of bestiality, that was meted out to the people at the time. So when [the prophet] came with this message of deliverance, with this message of guidance, you see, they welcomed him. I’m saying, again, that it was the hostility, the aggression, the wrongdoing, which forced these people, drove them towards Islam. And this is exactly what we have seen here in the world today."
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