The Ummah is under attack. In fact, the Ummah has been under attack for decades upon decades.
The oppressors come under the guise of peacemakers, as Allah Warned us:
“And when it is said to them: “Make not mischief on the earth,” they say: “We are only peacemakers.””- Qur’an, Surat Al-Baqarah, v11
Gaza and Palestine has been under attack for over 64 years, since it’s creation by the World Zionist Organisation and the United Nations (the organisation that claims to protect but has failed to do so with Palestine). The UK was instrumental in this, so it’s naive to think there will be help from these quarters. The USA is influenced heavily by the Israelis and no international policy on Israel is passed without their approval. Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with Israel and in doing so, stands by idly whilst children are killed, families are torn apart and the Muslims are being slaughtered. The Saudi family was put in place by the British and have served their role ever since. These regimes are only there to halt any uprising amongst the Muslims and to keep the balance of power in Israel’s favour.
The Israelis have used the holocaust to protect themselves from any attack – they play the sympathy card but after 70 years, it’s wearing thin. Especially when they’ve instigated their own holocaust on the Muslims.
The Muslims have been set upon to fight each other and this must now stop, because the UMMAH is under fire: Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central African Republic, Nigeria and so on… these are all lands of the Ummah. This is one body, not several split into countries that have become self-serving and nationalistic.
It’s time to wake up and stop fighting each other. It’s time to wake up and realise that the divisions between the Muslims have been put there by unscrupulous people to keep us arguing against each other and keep our energies wasted on each other. It’s time to wake up and realise that the differences you have with your brothers and sisters are part of a game from those who would benefit from keeping Muslims apart. We have always had one true aqeedah and that is within the Qur’an and the authentic hadith – learn this so you ensure the Guidance and Help from Allah reaches you.
You need to make sure any conflict is not about that country. We are ONE UMMAH. We always have been, even though some generations forgot this. There is no nationalistic divide between us. Do not call for the freedom of Gaza. Do not call for the fredom of Palestine. Do not call for the end to atrocities of the Syrians. If you call upon this, you will only get temporary respite. We are all MUSLIMS. So call upon the defence of the Ummah, call upon the defence of Islam. And in this way you invite the Help and Victory of Allah.
Remember always, we are one Ummah. What happens in one part affects the other. We cannot ignore the sufferings of the peoples of the world. We must help. And it starts by helping ourselves to strengthen the Ummah and make it ONE.
What will you do to unite with your brothers and sisters?
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HSBC Bank issues notice to Ummah Welfare Trust to shut it’s account down
This is the wider war – Boycott HSBC bank.
As the war rages in Gaza and innocent Muslims are killed, HSBC Bank has issued Ummah Welfare Trust a notice of only two months to close down its accounts.
This is very similar to what Barclays did to Ummah Welfare Trust during the previous Gaza war in 2008.
In response Ummah Welfare Trust will be increasing its support towards the Orphans, Widows and the injured in Gaza through its other Bank accounts.
The charity appeals to the Ummah and those who support and sympathise with the Humanitarian cause of the Palestinians to support us by doing the following:
Boycott and close down your personal and business accounts with HSBC.
Inform your contacts worldwide in the Muslim world and further afar to boycott HSBC Global.
Continue donating to the charity on http://www.uwt.org to increase our aid efforts.
For all media and other enquiries relating to this issue please email Ummah Welfare Trust at PRenquiries@uwt.org or call (+44) 1204 661037
Ummah Welfare Trust is a UK based registered charity operating in over 20 countries worldwide.
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A bar code starting with “729″ indicates that this product is produced in Israel 729 Israeli Bar Code Association – EAN Israel.
KIMBERLY-CLARK In 1998 Mr. Robert P. Van der Merwe, chairman of Kimberly-Clark Europe received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is the highest tribute ever awarded by the “State of Israel” in recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy.
COCA-COLA From 1966 onward Coca-Cola has been a staunch supporter of Israel. Recently the Government of Israel Economic Mission honored Coca-Cola at the Israel Trade Award Dinner for its continued support of Israel for the last 30 years and for refusing to abide by the Arab League boycott of Israel.
NESTLE Swiss food giant Nestle will set up a global research and development center for snack foods next year in Sderot, a town in Israel’s Negev desert, the Maariv newspaper reported on Sunday. Nestle owns 50.1 percent of Israeli food maker Osem Investments and the two together produce snack foods at a plant in Sderot.
INTEL Intel is one of the biggest supporters of Israel. Their very first development center outside the US was opened in Haifa in 1974. Since then they have continued pouring investment in to Israel. By year 2000 they employed over 4000 Israelis. Exports from their Lachish-Qiryat Gat plant in israel total $3 million a day at peak capacity – approximately $ 1 billion a year. The Intel plant at “Qiryat Gat” is built on land Israel confiscated from the Palestinian villages of Iraq al Manshiya. Iraq al Manshiya was a village of 2000 people living in 300 houses with two mosques and one school. The original Palestinian inhabitants were terrorized out of the village and then the whole village was razed to the ground to prepare the way for the new Israeli settlement of Qiryat Gat. Today the remaining population from Iraq al Manshiya is still not allowed to return.
MOTOROLA
Motorola supplies Israel with the military tools it needs to sustain its occupation and oppression of the Palestinians – from fuses for aircraft bombs and guided missiles; military encrypted comms systems with transportable units which deploy with the army in to the battle field; advanced radar/thermal camera surveillance systems for the settlements; metal detection gates used at checkpoints; and a cellular network tailored for the settlements. Its economic investment in Israel, which dates back to 1948, is huge and in recognition Motorola has received the Jubilee Award.
SARA LEE In 1998, Mr. Lucien Nessim of Sara Lee Personal Products received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is the highest tribute ever awarded by the “State of Israel” in recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy
DISNEY The Disney Company is owned by Jewish Mogul Michael Eisner. He owns a vast media empire that includes the ABCtelevision network, numerous news dailies, national magazines, Hollywood film companies and a large number of radio stations. One radio station in Los Angeles, KABC 790 AM recently broadcast comments by Jewess Gloria Alred to the effect that the Islamic prisoners at Guantanamo should be tortured by having their “balls” extracted with pliers in order to make them talk. The news and commentaries made through Michael Eisner’s media octopus are extremely Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian.
DANONE
In July 1998 Danone opened its R&D facility in Israel – the Danone Insitute, and later the same year in October 1998 Mr. Franck Riboud, on behalf of Danone received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.[Jubilee Award]
Danone owns a 20% share of Israel’s second largest food company, the Strauss Group. Danaone Israel is the hub supplying Danone products to the whole Middle-East including Turkey, Greece, Egypt and Jordan.
SODASTREAM
SodaStream is an Israeli company manufacturing and distributing home carbonating devices and flavorings for soft drinks. The company’s main plant is located in the industrial zone of MishorEdomim which is an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. KavLaOved, the NGO committed to protecting the rights of disadvantaged workers in Israeli companies, has reported that SodaStream factory workers, in particular Palestinians, are paid less than half the minimum wage and has described the working conditions in the factory as “one of the worst”, with workers being fired if they complain of the conditions.
SodaStream brands include: SodaStream, Soda-Club, AlcoJet, Sprudelino, Aquabar, Gazoz, Aquafizz, Aquabubbler, Penguin, Sodamaker, Fountain Jet and Edition1. Its products are available in Argos, Asda, Comets, Currys, Harvey Nichols, Homebase, John Lewis, Robert Dyas, Selfridges and House of Fraser.
STARBUCKS
Howard Schultz, the founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks who also owns 31.6 million shares of Starbucks stock (worth around $1.4 billion in Nov 2011) is an active zionist.
MCDONALDS
McDonald’s Corporation is a major corporate partner of the Jewish United Fund and Jewish Federation. According to the Jewish United Fund, through its Israel Commission it “works to maintain American military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel; monitors and, when necessary, responds to media coverage of Israel”. The Jewish United Fund also runs “Fun-filled Summer Family Missions to Israel” where families get to “visit an army base and meet with Israeli soldiers” and “visit our sister city, Kiryat Gat and see the important work we are doing there”. Kiryat Gat is built on stolen Palestinian land – the lands of the villages of Iraq Al Manshiya and Al-Faluja whose residents were ethnically cleansed in 1949 in contravention of International Law. Through its “Partnership to Israel” programme, the Jewish United Fund provides $1.3 million annually to help further settlement and development of Kiryat Gat. The Jewish Federation, through its Israel Action Network is tasked to fight “efforts to boycott Israeli products” and “campaigns, such as equating Israel with apartheid South Africa”.
Another way McDonald’s supports the Jewish United Fund is by running a partnership scheme whereby they will match any donation an employee make to the Jewish United Fund with its own equal size donation.
McDonald’s first restaurant in the Middle East was in Israel, opened in 1993, since then it has 160 restaurants in Israel (1996) with a 60% market share, employing around 4000 Israelis. Since April 2009 McDonald’s has also opened 15 branches of McCafe chain in Israel, with plans to open 10 new branches every year.
McDonalds discriminates against its Arab workers, in 2004 it sacked an Arab worker in Israel because she was caught speaking arabic to another Arab employee. Arabic, along with Hebrew, is the official language of Israel spoken by 20% of the population.
According to the American Jewish Committee (AJC), whose Executive Director “regularly meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”, McDonald’s in July 2001 immediately pulled an advertising campaign in Egypt when the ADC contacted them to complaint that the singer featured in the advert had in the past performed a song critical of Israel. Within 24 hours of the complaint, the advert was cancelled and according to the Egyptian franchise of McDonald’s “all copies of the tapes were whisked ‘back to the main offices'”!
TESCO
Tesco stores stock a large amount of produce grown in the Occupied Territories and purchased from the Israeli state, including fruit and vegetables from producer Carmel-Agrexco. Israeli products stocked by Tesco include fruit juice, mangoes, avocados, grapes, stonefruit, dates, herbs, pickled cucumbers, Exquisa potatoes, mixed peppers (from Israel and a second country of origin), Barkan wine, Yarden wine, biscuits, cold meat, dips, Osem soups and cakes, snacks by Beigel & Beigel, Telma (soup mixes and cubes, noodles etc) and socks (Tesco’s own brand).
Tesco sells products from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, many of which are exported by Carmel Agrexco. The company admitted sourcing ‘a number of products’ from illegal settlements, including avocados, herbs, grapes and stonefruit, such as peaches, from farms in the West Bank and Golan Heights. In 2006 War on Want reported that Tesco sells Beigel and Beigel products sourced from the settlements. Tesco also sells gas cylinders for products made by settlement company Soda Club, and repackages settlement dates from Hadiklaim as Tesco own brand dates. Mehadrin-Tnuport Export Company (MTex) supplies Tesco with settlement citrus fruit and there are links between Tesco and the Arava settlement company.
In October 2007, a group of campaigners from the Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group entered Tomer settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley and photographed medjoul dates, packaged by Carmel Agrexco, labelled ‘Made in Israel’ and marked as bound for Tesco stores.
Products exported as ‘Made in Israel’ benefit from the preferential trade terms of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which came into effect in 2000. Settlement products, however, are excluded from the beneficial terms of the EU-IAA.
When ITN screened an expose in 2007 accusing supermarkets of misleading British consumers, Tesco admitted it had acted “in error” and stated that Israeli dates “originating solely in the West Bank will [in the future] be labelled as such.”
BIGCampaign and others groups have been campaigning against the ‘West Bank’ label as it misleads consumers into believing produce from illegal settlements is actually Palestinian. The Palestinian General Delegation to the UK has written a letter of protest to Tesco, and other retailers, for persisting in the use of this misleading label.
Tesco says that ‘freedom of choice’ is one of the company’s priorities and consumers can choose not to buy Israeli products. However, in correspondence with campaigners in 2006, Tesco representatives said they were phasing out Tesco’s line of Israeli peppers due to consumer pressure. Boycott Israeli Goods campaigners have also consistently attended the Tesco AGM to raise the issue of settlement produce and propose a boycott of Israeli goods.
John Porter, one of the principal shareholders in Tesco, also has substantial investments in Israeli companies. In 2000, Tesco awarded a $1 million IT contract to the Israeli firm Tescom to provide a solution for Tesco’s Year 2000 conversion requirements.
During the bombing of Gaza, Tesco was targeted across the country by campaigners calling for a boycott of Israeli goods. In Swansea, activists stole Israeli settlement produce from Tesco and sprayed it with red dye to highlight Tesco’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes by profiting from settlement produce and enabling the settlements to trade and profit from their illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
Despite the hundreds murdered by Israelis, thousands that have been injured and tens of thousands whose homes have been destroyed, Palestine is not under attack.
…The UMMAH IS UNDER ATTACK!
It’s time to stop making this an issue about Palestine – it isn’t. Islam is not a natioanlistic religion. Muslims are not nationalists – wherever there are Muslims in the world, they are our concern and there is no barrier between us and them. This is not an attack on Palestine, this is an attack on the Muslim Ummah, this is an attack on Islam. And the Israelis will never leave us in peace.
Israel hides behind excuses, pretending to be the victim. But the numbers and facts say otherwise:
over 350 Muslims in Gaza murdered, many children, described as ‘terrorist threats’ and acceptable human collateral (according to the BBC, who is pro-Israeli reporting)
more than 2,800 Muslims have been injured from the attacks
more than 50,000 Muslims in Gaza have been seeking shelter from the attacks (according to the UN, which idly stands by and allows Israel to continue the massacres)
Less than 10 Israelis dead in comparison (is an Israeli life worth more than the hundreds of Muslims killed and butchered by Israelis?)
All that Barack Obama can do is say that he’s “deeply concerned” – what a helpful statement! All talk and no action. Gaza has a population of around 1.8 million Muslims – when will the Israelis be satisfied? When all our Muslims brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers and children are dead? There is more to the bombings and killings than the powers-to-be will admit to. They stand without action, allowing innocents to be killed. They do this time and again. They have done this for the past 56 years.
Isn’t it time that Muslims stopped listening to the hypocrisy? The USA and UK and European allies have no interest in saving Muslim lives – they would have done this in the past 56 years but haven’t. There’s no point in protesting to powers who are not interested in listening to our pleas.
It’s time that Muslims took control of the situation and started to pressure the neighbouring Muslim countries to step in and stop the hostilities, to defend Muslims in Gaza, to defend the Ummah and Islam.
Muslim children targetted by Israel
A Muslim child cries not to be left alone because his family is dead
Who can abstain from crying and feeling empty in their hearts after seeing this
Ummah in Gaza under attack by Israelis
Ummah in Gaza under attack by Israelis
Proests around the world – but what will they achieve?
Muslim children targetted by Israel
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I make dua that Allah Unites the Ummah in this time of need, where the world just watches Israelis methodically kill Muslims in Palestine
I make dua that Allah Gives Strength to the scholars to speak out against oppression, instead of performing khutbas that do not address the needs of the Ummah
I make dua that Allah Helps the Muslims to see past their bickerings and wake up to the fact that Islam is under attack, so bickering doesn’t help
I make dua that Allah Strengthens the Ummah with righteous leaders
I make dua that Allah Opens the eyes of the Ummah to putting Islam first
I make dua that Allah Exposes the hypocrites who would lull the Ummah to sleep
I make dua that Allah Replace corrupt leaders with those who are filled with justice
I make dua that Allah Admits into Paradise those killed in the unlawful attacks by the Israelis
I make dua that Allah Increases our Imaan so we can help the Ummah and our brothers and sisters in Islam who are in need
I make dua that Allah Makes us not of those who are cowardly
I make dua that Allah Puts Compassion and Conviction in our hearts so we do not merely condemn wrong actions from the comfort of our armchairs
I make dua that Allah Answers my duas for His is the best Answer.
… Stand Up 4 Islam!
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