I Got Game do you GOT Game?

I started writing this a while ago when I was bored then I lost it and thought about heck why not write it again, I find it somewhat funny…
The Game, I am still a little knocked on exactly what does that mean, perhaps because we are currently amidst the game, becoming and have become a player in the game, or have been played.

So as humans do we like this whole game, the game of how do I get her to like me w/out her knowing the games I am playing or how do I make it seem that he was interested in me when I was in control of maneuvering ever piece in this game. I have always admittedly been against games and swore up and down that honesty is the path but then I woke the hell up and realized that no one wants to put their feeling on the line and no one wants to get others involved so that's where we resort to the GAME.

After talking to a few brothers, sisters, and honestly re-thinking some of the things I have done, here are a few games us Muslim most commonly play:
• PHASE 1A: So it another conference, lecture, meeting, gathering, or fundraiser and you are asking yourself why the hell do you always volunteer or come to these lame events or perhaps you are actually enjoying yourself....until WAIT!!! OMG who is THAT, every thought that was consuming your head just hit the floor as your eyebrows raise and your eyes squint, you just caught the first glimpse of your prey ( ooopps I mean some sister or brother), you watch the person like a hawk watching its prey (it's been a long time since you had a good meal if any at all)....but wait you realize you must me be discreet b/c you don't want this spectacular prey to catch on and get away...YOU know what time it is NOW...it's time for the eye game, you catch that persons eye but quickly look away, knowing that person has noticed you, YES, you think LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!
• PHASE 1B: Okay the eye game is fun but YOU want MORE, it's time to increase the heat a bit...It's time for the following each other game...At all times you know where and who your prey is talking to (of course they don't know that)but you want to get into close proximity, you decide to talk to someone who happens to be near them...HECK the Muslim community is small I am sure they are talking to someone you already know so you go over there to ask a question and wittily knew that person would introduce you to that person... AHHHH now you know your preys name...So for the remainder of the event you are on cloud nine, hey if you're lucky you have gotten your prey's attention and they are now exchanging looks with you....It was a great conference, lecture, or fundraiser after all!!!
• PHASE 2A: This is known as the how much info can you find out about that person within 24-hours...Yeah I said 24-hours b/c you know you're so freaking anxious to find out as much as possible...This is where the great invention of Google come into place b/c if they are active, you know their name will get a few hits, if that doesn't work the good old call a friend of a friend who knows of a friend of a friend of that person and on the sly bring up that person's name, like yeah the event was great, hey you know your friend so and so, I've never seen them around how do you know them??? most likely the person will ask you why and you quickly respond by saying WOHOO it's just a question I don't really care... the I really don't care usually open up the door and this person's friend gives you just enough info, where you can now do your own investigation w/out that friend picking up on it....sighhhh these games really get your analytical thinking going...So now you know the basic 411, what this prey does, where they live, who is their family, are they involved if so where, their age, likes, dislikes, and the list goes on....MAN oh MAN if we applied all this research to school or work we would all be all stars but hey some things are more of a priority...we are now ready to move on to Phase 3A...
• PHASE 3A: So now that you know the basic 411 on your prey, you are wondering when you will see this person next...This is called the coincidental meeting...This one is the hardest part of the game, if you can overcome this level, you have become a full-fledged professional in the art of the Game...This level takes some patience and research....You are not a part of this persons network, so how do you get to meet them again...hmm....well you just found out there is another event coming up, GREAT but WAIT, how will you talk to this person....ideas are floating around...Well the day has come of the event, you make sure to look fabulous and if you have done your initially strategies well, your prey will be looking for you as well....You spot your prey but you play it cool, even though your thought are spiraling rapidly in your head like fireworks on a stick (yeah I know weird analogy)...you spot your prey about to get up, it's time for you to be quick but settle and walk out the door the same time of your prey but act like you totally did not see them b/c most likely they will say salaams or you will have to act startle and be like Oh hey Salaams sorry about that didn't see you...that leads to how are you.....You want to keep it quick but sweet and memorable, you make sure you are friendly but not too friendly that it gives anything away but enough where now when you see each other you can go up to one another.....YES your thinking I have become a master-mind...but WOOOO there, you've got a ways there before you can celebrate....
• PHASE 4A: It dawns on you that the best way to get close to your prey is to get close to their family, but that seems like a very unrealistic move, so the best option are their friends.....HMMM how can you make this happen, well you know that mutual friend you have that you saw at the event, you decide to call them up and hang out, you know rekindle that relationship, while you are becoming buddy buddy, you slowly work your way into your preys social network, now you share the same acquaintance and friends, which leads you to your ultimate goal of in a group hanging out *you know you always wanna keep it Islamic and do group things ( haha that was funny)* with your prey.....You now have the perfect opportunity to get to know your prey a little but better w/out seeming suspicious, oh how you have weaved this web you have weaved so well...
• PHASE 5A: So this is a critical point to determine if there is any chemistry between you and the prey, so you do what we Muslims like to call HALAL FLIRTING (woooh calm down not the flirting you are use to) but this flirting is when you know of an interest your prey may have and you act and seemed utterly interested *even though you could care less* but you know seeming attentive will be a factor in the prey being receptive and perhaps taking you as a friend.
• PHASE 6A: Now you and your prey are friends, no longer is there this awkwardness when talking to your prey in person or on the phone….You are sensing that they are hooked because you played the game of hard to get and that is right you did it right…Be careful this is a crucial point because if you play your cards too well you can kill the game because you are protecting your feelings and you being nonchalant can seem like you are un-interested, so BEWARE this might turn your prey off and we definitely don't want that..But you are not amateur you did exactly what was needed…You think what will your next steps be?
• PHASE 7A: See this is considered the dangerous phase because you notice that for some reason you are thinking less about your prey, your visions is becoming clouded because who wants to play a game that they keep winning, the thrill is warring off, there is no more of a chase factor…OR…now your prey has become a great friend and you don't know how to maximize the heat to get to the next level….AHHHHHHHHH now you are stuck in the game and want to get the hell out…or the game itself has become destructive and blows up in your face…
• PHASE 8A? WAIT!!! Is there a next phase? Was this game worth it? If you did not play the game could it have actually grown into a relationship? Are games worth it?
• PHASE 9A: I am sure the games will continue until you become the prey.

sorry still need an ending

Excerpts of, "To Whom Will She Cry Rape?"

*Abbey Lincoln speaks to me:

"We are the women (Black Women) who were kidnapped and brought to this continents as slaves. We are the women who were raped, are still being raped, and our bastards children snatched from our breasts and scattered to the winds to be lynched, castrated, de-egoed, robbed, burned, and deceived. We are the women whose strong and beautiful Black bodies were-- and are-- still being used as cheap labor force for Miss. Anne's kitchen and Mr. Charlie's bed, whose rich, black, and warm milk nurtured--and still nurtures--the heir to the racist and evil slave master.

We are the women who dwell in the hell-hole ghettos all over the land. We are the women whose bodies are sacrificed, as living cadavers, to experimental surgery in the white man's hospital for the sake of white medicine. We are the women who are invisible on the television and move screens, on the Broadway stage. We are the women who are lusted after, sneered at, leered at, yelled at, grabbed at, tracked down by white degenerated in our own pitable, poverty-stricken, and priceless neighborhoods.

We are the women whose hair is compulsively fried, whose skin is bleached, whose nose is "too big," whose mouth is "too big and too loud," whose behind is "too big and broad," whose feet are "too big and flat," whose face is "too black and shiny," and whose suffering and patience is too long and enduring to be believed. Who are just too damned much for everybody. We are the women whose bars and recreation halls are invaded by flagrantly disrespectful, bigoted, simpering, amoral, emotionally unstable, outcast, maladjusted, nymphomaniacal, condescending white women...in desperate and untiring search of the "frothing-at-the-mouth-for-a-white-woman, strongbacked, sixty minutes hot black."Our men.

We are the women who, upon protesting this invasion of our privacy and sanctity and sanity, are called "jealous," and "evil," and "small-minded," and "prejudiced," We are the women whose husbands and fathers and brother's and sons have been plagiarized, imitated, denied, and robbed of the fruits of their genius, and who consequently we see emasculated, jailed, lynched, driven mad, deprived, enraged, and made suicidal.

We are the women whom nobody, seemingly, cares about, who are made to feel inadequate stupid and backward, and who inevitably have the most colossal inferiority complexes to be found. And who is spreading the propaganda that "the only free people in this country are the white man and the Black woman?" If this be freedom, then Heaven is Hell. Who will revere the Black Woman? Who will keep our neighborhoods safe for Black innocent womanhood? Black womanhood is outraged and humiliated. Black womanhood cries for dignity and restitution and salvation. Black womanhood wants and needs protection, and keeping, and holding. Who will assuage her indignation ? Who will keep her precious and pure? Who will glorify and proclaim her beautiful image? To whom will she cry rape?

A Dose of Reality

So today my mom and cousin decided to remind me of who I am, or more so of what race I am. They were some how apparently concerned that I might be heading down a road of sorrow, that would lead to a broken heart. My mom is particularly worried about me meeting a guy who I grow deeply fond of and vice versa but his parents opposing our relationship not because I am from a different country or a mix back ground, but because I am black!!! This has always been a fear and a concern of mine that I have tried to learn how to suppress.

I always deeply believed that my color of my skin does not matter as long as I am a good human. But time after time, time proves something different. This dawned on me the other day when an 'Aunty' had come up to me and said, "You are very pretty for a Black Girl." I was taken back by that comment, was I suppose to take that as a compliment? What are Black girls not meant to be pretty? That comment shows the ignorance and racism deeply embedded in the minds of many Muslims. Why does black always carry a negative connotation?

Speaking from personal experience, there was this brother who was interested in me and pursued me for years, he was from (lets change the country for identity purposes) Tajikistan. Everything seemed well and dandy after we worked so many of the little kinks out, he came over and had dinner with me and my mom frequently. However, when it came time for me to meet his parents who I was waiting eagerly to meet after speaking to them many times over the phone. This brother became hesitant all of sudden, I was confused why, everything seemed to be going smoothly, until he told my mom and myself that he never told his parents I was black. I felt ill to my stomach as he uttered those words, I was no longer focusing on what he was saying but rather what it all meant. He knew his parents would be against our marriage so he waited as long as possible before he would be "forced" to introduce me to his parents. At first I couldn't believe it, I told him there is no way his parents would oppose due to my color, since after all I spoke to them on the phone many times and they loved me. But when he did call his parents and told them my background, well lets just say they said tell her bye if you want to be apart of this family. I was devastated how could this family claim to be so religious yet deny someone because of their race? I was physically and emotionally drained at the fact that this brother was not willing to stand up to his parents, rather he conceded and walked away from the possibilities between us. I know I should be saying Alhumdulilah but this dilemma has followed me many times out. For some reason my race has held a constant presence over who I am.

I even think about how many of my friends families would actually be okay if their daughter or son brought a black brother or sister home to them. The sad part is 99% would not be okay with it. But why??? Why are so many families who are in the deen and claim to be open minded are afraid of having a black son or daughter-in-law. It deeply hurts my spirits when I think about this because this is a dose of reality reminding me that, these ppl I cherish would not accept me in their families...

I guess my mom and cousin were right when they warned me to be aware that it will be a trying point in my life, that will have its ups and downs, if I want to marry someone out of my race. But does that mean I am going to succumb that easily and give up? No way, we as humans have not attempted to progress this far and not touch down on the issues of racism in the Muslim community. I challenge those who oppose interracial marriages and I piety those individuals who are not willing to stand up to their parents for the one they care for and possibly love.

God’s Messenger came with the Divine Message and proclaimed that no Arab is superior over a non-Arab, and no white is superior over black and superiority is by righteousness and God-fearing alone (sura al-Hujurat, 49.13). He also declared that even if an Abyssinian black Muslim were to rule over Muslims, he should be obeyed . God’s Messenger eradicated the problem of racial or colour discrimination so successfully that, for example, ‘Umar once said of Bilal: ‘Bilal is our master, and was emancipated by our master Abu Bakr’. Zayd ibn Haritha was a black slave. God’s Messenger emancipated him and, before the banning of adoption by the Qur’an, adopted him. He married him to Zaynab bint Jahsh, one of the noblest women of the Muslim community.

And plus mixed kids are always cute and get to have the best of both worlds!!!

Vote Prophet Muhammad as most influential man in the Spanish Newspaper Elmundo

Check it out....a friend sent it to me
Just click on the link to vote for the most influential man...

Link: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/debate/2007/01/689/prevotaciones689.html


Currently, the Spanish Newspaper Elmundo is
running a survey about the person that influenced the world most. A
documentary will be produced about the most voted person. Among the people
that you can vote for is Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم (PBUH). We
ask from you all to participate in this survey please to give Spanish
speakers a closer look at the character of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه
وسلم (PBUH).the name Muhammad in Spanish is Mahoma. follow this link:

Muslim Brothers & Marriage, ugghhh don't get me started

Is it me or are times getting harder for sisters?...wait I don't think it is me, b/c apparently many sisters are feeling this way, signs of the times or just a lack of pickings...Pickings you ask, well pickings=Eligible Muslim brothers who are able willing to step to the plate in seeking the hand of mentally mature women...With the recent engagement frenzy, I notice that the pickings are becoming really dense....A theory a few sisters and myself share...why is it that Muslim brothers go for the extremes when it comes to Muslim women (no offense to any sisters or bros who reads this)...wait you know what, I don't care if ppl get offended by this I am just stating how many sisters feel...Muslim brothers have this trend of going after the super "religious sista"=the sister who dresses simple (even the abaya wearing ones), who is active in the MSA community or a halaqa goer, the sister who doesn't really stand out but has that simplicity about her that makes her soooo appealing and then on the other side of the spectrum there is the sister who doesn't have the best reputation you know those forever 21 wearing sistas, these two types of sisters have no problems when it comes to the leftover brothers...but WAIT there is another type of sister, the one who speaks her mind, the one who takes pleasure in intellectual discourse, the sister who likes taking care of herself (but is some how always labeled high-maintenance, when did it become a sin to like looking good, that's beyond my understanding, but back to my point),these sisters are self-initiators and not afraid of change and trying something new, these sisters can school anyone on a given issue from Islam to history to current events....YET these sisters are some how left out in the cold...Why???...WHY would any brother in his right mind not want a sister who is a leader, a patron, a role-model for women and men alike....for GOD sake she will breed the future..wait that's if she ever gets married....You read all these blogs about how hard it is for brothers to get married but wake up call it's harder for sisters, who don't care about minuet things like family status, how many escrows you have in your back pocket, or what tribe/area/city/town or province you come from....These sisters simply want brothers who will respect and cherish them and appreciate their intellects as their equals...Aren't we as Muslim suppose to be the forefront of ethics and behavior yet countless Muslim brothers don't appreciate these sisters, sadly its non-Muslim men I have notice who do....Why do Muslim brothers feel that these sisters are as they say "way too much"....what the HELL does that mean, are we as Muslim women suppose to be subdue, flap our eyelashes, be simple, and say how high when asked to jump??? what happened to a sister being attractive when she can disagree or question something, don't brothers want brilliant children who can face life head one bc the site of it appears not so, when you look at the sisters that are on demand...ohh and what is up with Muslim brother who are in their late twenties early thirties, finally financially stable, at a steady pace in the deen(still moving on up) and yet not married??? What is up with that, what are they waiting for because everywhere I turn I see SubhanaAllah amazing sisters, yet these brothers are looking for as Sheikh Saddullah so graciously said, "Muslim brothers want Super-Models in abayas, who have Qu'ran so eloquently flowing out of their mouths." Umm hello wake the hell up and flip this scenario for a minute because last time I checked I don't see Tyson Beckford (for those who don't know he is a model) looking brothers, who are sheikhs around any where....what happened to growing together and attaining a certain level of deen together, what is this a pre packaged deal....wake up brothers that's not how it works...and plus I think we sisters are getting the sour end of the deal, last time I checked so many Muslim women are gorgeous within and outwardly, can't say the same for the other sex...When did getting married become so damn complicated, what happened to if two individuals are mutually attracted to one another, active, intellectual, and in the deen, getting married??? What is so hard about it...And why are so many Muslim brother bound to this whole, well I like her, well I am interested in her, well she seems great but I dunno...what do you mean you don't know??? If it feel right and you can see each other spending this life and the next together then why not just step to her....oh wait..I guess I forgot the whole thing about apparently Muslim brothers don't have guts anymore, I guess they are waiting for sister to step to them...oh and lets not forget the whole thing that my parents are going to freak out bc she is not from the same country as me...who the hell cares have we went back to the times of Jahaliya when races didn't mix, for some reason I thought Islam touched down on that whole issue but I guess I am wrong....anyways enough ranting for today, it was just some mumble jumble thoughts floating around in my head...I eagerly await all your thoughts on this whole issue....

Do you remember that man named Imam Jamil Al-Amin

So once upon a time there was a fellow named Imam Jamil Al-Amin, this was a time when students were rampant in bringing justice to this Imam, this was a time when students were enraged with the American judicial system, but that was a long time ago...If you ask who Imam Jamil Al-Amin is now, ppl stop and shrug their shoulders...well here is a little refresher on who Imam Jamil Al-Amin is:
IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN:

FROM REVOLUTIONARY TO REFORMER

by Talha Rizvi

The world was at war in 1943. From the plains of Europe to the islands of the Pacific, the world was brimming with violence. America had entered World War II two years earlier and many of its young men were sent overseas to bring an end to an international conflict that had been started by the hegemonic aspirations of a few racist nations.

Ironically, America itself was built on similar grounds that led to the eradication of entire native populaces and the importation and enslavement of others. By 1943, though the enslavement of others was brought to a halt on paper, many racially bigoted practices remained. Another warfront was formed, this time within America itself. This struggle for human and civil rights, however, would be fought with patience, unification, and civil disobedience rather than with weapons.

This was the environment in which Jamil Abdullah al-Amin was born. With the birth name of Hubert Gerold Brown, he was the eldest of three children born to Eddie C. and Thelma Brown. Growing up on the streets of Louisiana, he was able to observe the damaging effects of segregation on blacks firsthand. He earned his nickname “Rap” for his quick wits and ability to win street games in which participants used rhyming phrases to insult each other. This name was later perpetuated due to his powerful speaking style at public forums.

In 1955, the civil rights movement was thrown into a new stage by the daring of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat for a white man in a segregated Alabama bus. Though the civil rights movement had been underway before this, her actions and the subsequent boycott of the Alabama bus system by blacks brought the struggle into national focus.

Joining the Black Liberation Movement

In 1960, Rap Brown began attending Southern University with a major in sociology. He cut his studies short in 1964, however, opting to join the civil rights struggle instead. He moved to Washington and worked for a neighborhood development center called “The United Planning Organization.” During his involvement there, he became skeptical of the federal poverty program. He later wrote, “It was designed to take those people whom the government considered threatening and buy them off.”

He became an organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and succeeded Stokely Carmichael as its leader in 1967. This catapulted him and Carmichael into the national spotlight as they promoted an arming of the black population for self-defense and elimination of Jim Crow segregation. This ‘by any means necessary’ principle contrasted with, and met criticism from non-violence leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. As the non-violence movement was steadily losing ground amongst black youth in the late 1960s, powerful rebellions broke out in cities across the U.S. Rap Brown supported these uprisings as a just and powerful form of resistance. He traveled the country, talking to campus audiences and black communities across America. In July 1967, Brown addressed a civil rights rally in Cambridge, Maryland. He arrived late and gave a fiery address from the hood of a car. After he spoke, a young woman requested an escort home. As Brown and two others escorted her up the street, assailants opened fire on them from nearby bushes. Years later, reflecting upon that incident, Imam Al-Amin would remark, “We found out later the gunmen were black policemen.” After the shooting, there was commotion in the streets that quickly escalated into a riot. By the next morning, two blocks of the town lay in ashes.

Rap Brown was charged with inciting riot and arson. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, over a hundred rebellions broke out in black communities nationwide. Six days later, Congress passed the “Rap Brown Amendment,” which was attached to the 1968 Civil Rights Act. The amendment made it illegal to cross state lines to “incite” rebellions.

Emergence of the Panthers

The Black Panther Party (BPP) was another emerging movement from Oakland, California. It was dubbed by the FBI as a dangerous force, even though the premise behind the BPP was economic empowerment and social aid programs. The SNCC and BPP had a brief period of unity in 1968, in which Rap Brown was given the honorary title of ‘Minister of Justice.’ This unification effort was to be undermined by the FBI. In secret, the FBI developed their ‘Counter-Intelligence Program’ (COINTELPRO) into a countrywide campaign to disrupt radical organizations and “neutralize” emerging leaders. Rap Brown was among those who were pursued, harassed, spied on, arrested, and targeted by covert operations. One FBI memo even called for writing unsigned letters to create distrust between Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown.

In 1969, Brown wrote an autobiography entitled Die, Nigger, Die!, in which he presented an in-depth analysis of the problems facing blacks in the time of segregation. As Maryland was preparing to try him for the Cambridge riot, Brown went into hiding in 1970. He reappeared later in 1971 at the scene of a bar hold-up and shootout with police in New York. Police officers shot Brown and arrested him, charging him with armed robbery and attempted murder.

Brown Enters Islam

A defining moment in the life of Rap Brown would occur while he was in jail and awaiting trial in New York. Having been exposed to it earlier in his work with the BPP, Brown embraced Islam and changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Al-Amin emerged from prison a dramatically changed man. After his parole in 1976, he performed the Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah). Upon his return, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, a particularly crime-infested and poverty-stricken part of the city, where he established a masjid (Muslim place of worship) and became its imam (leader). He opened a grocery store, and began doing community work.

From that point on, Imam Jamil encouraged others to reform their lives in the methodology prescribed in the Qur’an and expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The Muslim community under his leadership led a rejuvenation of the area. The success of his efforts have been recognized by both Muslims and non-Muslims. An area that was once drowning in crime, a place where hypodermic needles littered the parks, became a safer place to live, where parents didn’t need to worry about their children being exposed to drugs and prostitution. The mayor of Whitehall, Alabama, himself a veteran of the civil rights movement, invited Imam Jamil and his community to help with social works. The Imam’s efforts were recognized with the mayor’s appointing him to the auxiliary police force.

The Imam’s leadership has been accredited nationally amongst Muslims. His organization, Jamat Community of Imam Jamil Al-Amin is a coalition of nearly thirty masajid in the United States. He was also appointed to the Islamic Shura Council of North America. Imam Jamil traveled to different universities and conferences, teaching the next generation of Muslims Islamic values. Despite his transformation, Imam Jamil’s past made him a target for both the FBI and local law enforcement.

Hounding by the FBI & Friends

For at least five years during the 1990s, the FBI, ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) and Atlanta police carried out an intensive investigation of Imam Jamil and anyone associated with him. As part of their operations, the FBI kept paid informants within Imam Jamil’s Community Mosque.

In 1995, in their first attempt to frame Imam Jamil, the Atlanta police pressured a man who had been shot by an unknown assailant to point out Imam Jamil as the culprit. The man later recanted his accusation, saying the police had pressured him into making the false identification. The man later converted to Islam at the masjid of Imam Jamil. Strangely enough, the investigation for the shooting involved the FBI and ATF in what should have been treated as a routine case of aggravated assault. Although federal agencies have spent years trying to connect him to unsolved crimes and murders in the area, they have not been able to produce a single charge against him. Imam Jamil remains the changed man he became upon entering Islam despite the efforts of different organizations, agencies, and news media to connect him to a violent past. It was during this transformed period of his life that he wrote his new book, Revolution by the Book. In contrast to his earlier Die, Nigger, Die!, Revolution by the Book provides a completely Islamic analysis of the social problems which plague America and minorities in particular. Wasting no time on rhetoric, Imam Jamil exhorts his readers to follow through with “the program,” meaning by this, of course, the divinely revealed program of Islam. Two examples from his book give us a glimpse into the man he has become.

“It is criminal that in the 1990s we still approach struggle...sloganeering... saying ‘by any means necessary,’ as if that’s a program. Or ‘we shall overcome,’ as if that’s a program. Slogans are not programs. We must define the means which will bring about change. This can be found in what Allah has brought for us in the Qur’an and in the example of the Prophet [pbuh]... Successful struggle requires a Divine program. Allah has provided that program.”

“For more than ten years the Prophet focused his community on the all-encompassing power of the Lord of the Worlds. There was no warfare, no military preparations, no economic development programs, no political activism. First the total submission and reliance on the Creator had to be established firmly in the hearts of the believers. Once that was instituted all else followed instinctively, naturally, not in contrived, artificially-induced political programs... To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds.”

(courtesy of http://www.al-talib.com)

10 FACTS CONCERNING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IMAM JAMIL
AL-AMIN

Published by Coalition for Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Metro Washington,

D.C-Area.

Fact 1

In 1999, Imam Jamil was stopped while driving by Cobb County
Police. During the stop, the officers asked Imam Jamil for proof of
insurance of the vehicle he was driving. He had a valid driver's
license but no insurance. According to the Imam, when he went to

open his wallet, an officer spotted a metal badge. The officer was
informed by Imam Jamil that the badge was issued to him by the
city of White Hall, Alabama when that city's Mayor appointed him
to the city's auxiliary police force. At no time did the Imam Jamil
represent himself as an Atlanta police officer. (*Source: Essay of
Prof. Natsu Taylor Saito, Georgia State University Law School,
3/20/2000)

Fact 2

During the stop, the Cobb County policeman a check on the car
Imam Jamil was driving and their records listed the car as stolen.
Imam Jamil provided the authorities with a bill of sale for the car,
yet the police nevertheless arrested him for receiving stolen
property. He was also charged with diving without insurance and
impersonating an officer. (*Source: Prof. Saito, 3/20/00)

Fact 3

Imam Jamil attempted to seek legal representation to have these
charges dismissed. Wanting to avoid a trial and the attendant
publicity, he offered to plead to reduced charges and a sentence of
a fine and community service. However, the District Attorney
initially insisted on a minimum sentence of two years in prison,
never offering a settlement without jail time. (*Source: Prof. Saito,
3/20/00)

Fact 4

Imam Jamil missed a court appearance in January of this year, in
connection with these small, non violent charges. A bench warrant

was issued for his arrest. On March 16th, the day in which
Muslims from around the world were celebrating one of their two
holy days -- Eid Al Adha -- two police officers came to a store
which was owned by Imam Jamil to serve the warrant. (*Source:
Prof. Saito, 3/20/00)

Fact 5

There have been various reports of what lead up to the shooting.
Some claim that the deputies went to serve the warrant at a
grocery store in the Black community of West End which was
owned by Imam Jamil. Other reports, state that the officers went
to Imam Jamil's home. Still others state that the officers knocked
on the door of Al-Amin's store, got no answer, walked away, drove
around the neighborhood, and then returned to the store.
(*Sources: Prof. Saito, 3/20/00; Atlanta Journal Constitution, "FBI
Issues Warrant for Al-Amin," 3/18/00)

Fact 6

There have also been inconsistencies in statements concerning
how the shooting occurred. Some reports claim that the police
officers were confronted with a man near a Black Mercedes Benz,
near the store (Imam Jamil does not own such a car). When they
asked this man to show his hands, the man fired upon the officers.

Another report states that the man was inside the car and when
asked to show his hands, the driver fired upon the Police.
(*Sources: Prof. Saito, 3/20/00; Atlanta Journal Constitution,
"Sheriff: Deputies blindsided by attack," 3/18/00)

Fact 7

The shooting occurred at nighttime, around 10 P.M., in a inner city
neighborhood. Initially, the surviving deputy could not identify his
assailant, but nonetheless a nationwide man-hunt for Imam Jamil
was announced. The following day, in between operations, the
deputy identified Imam Jamil from a photograph shown to him at
the hospital. Despite these inconsistencies, the media reported
that the surviving police officer "positively identified Imam Jamil."
(*Sources: Prof. Saito, 3/20/00; Atlanta Journal Constitution,
"Sheriff: Deputies blindsided by attack," 3/18/00)

Fact 8

Atlanta and Fulton County police wrongly told the media Thursday
night that the warrant which the police had sought to serve upon
Imam Jamil was for aggravated assault. They now admit that the
information they put out was false. (*Sources: Atlanta Journal
Constitution, "Sheriff: Deputies blindsided by attack," 3/18/00;
Hype Newswire "Media's Rush to Judgement in the H. Rap Brown -

Al-Amin Case," Mar. 2000)

Fact 9

The Fulton County Police reported that the "shooter" had been
wounded and that they were following a trail of blood. Some
reports claimed that the blood was identified as that from Imam
Jamil. However, medical officials have now verified that Imam Jamil

is not wounded and thus the blood trail could not have come from
him. (*Sources: Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Police doubt
bloodstains linked to Al-Amin case," 3/24/00)

Fact 10

Imam Jamil stated that this incident was a part of a government
conspiracy. This would not be the first. On August 7, 1995, Imam
Jamil Al-Amin, while driving his son to school, was arrested in
connection with the July shooting of a young man in Atlanta. After
the arrest, the police interrogated his 7-year-old son for six hours
before notifying someone to pick up the child. The victim initially
pointed to Imam Jamil as being his assailant. Later, in a news
conference in Washington, D.C., this young man announced that
he did not know who wounded him and that the police pressured
him into making the identification. (Sources: Prof. Saito, 3/20/00;
Washington Post, "60's militant arrested in Alabama," 3/21/00, "Al-
Amin Calls Slaying Case A 'Government Conspiracy'", 3/22/00)

DA Muslim Job

So for those who don't know I recently left my job, which was a shocker to many since I always went on about how much I loved my job and how great everything was.....dun dun dunnnn...Don't get me wrong I loved my job, honestly the work I did as a Program Director was enjoyable and the best part of it all was I was helping Muslims...but wait is that where the problem occurred...Working for Muslims...? Something my baba always warned me about, he always said Muslim slave drive, under appreciate you, and under-pay you...hmm is that true? Maybe to some extent or maybe it's the whole they love you like their own family...wow thats a scary thought...I think its just that Muslims have this whole concept that you won't mind as another Muslim if they are slow with things like; pay, appreciation, professionalism, and so forth...but NEWSFALSH maybe that's the reason why our nations are in tip top shape...right...well whatever it may be I will not give up on the Muslim workforce, because if we can't deal with our own ppl who the heck is going to...maybe us young folks need to start a coup and get rid of all the fobs and start bringing a thing like work ethics and appreciation back into the Muslim workforce...how is that for a thought....anyways enough ranting