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Joint press release

Aid Flotilla under Israeli Military Attack

The Media Review Network (MRN) and the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) express their deep shock and disgust at Israel’s latest show of force, in attacking the flotilla of aid ships carrying much needed aid to the beleaguered, besieged and imprisoned Palestinians.  This latest act of naked aggression has led to the killing of about 20 unarmed aid workers and more than 50 wounded.

Israel has used the challenge of its “legitimacy” as its pathetic excuse to divert attention from this latest act of savagery and brutality.  This time round, this vicious violence was not directed at Palestinians but at the International community in International waters.

This pre-meditated act of criminality by the Apartheid state of Israel is to divert the genocidal brutality she is carrying out against the Palestinian people. This apartheid entity embodies an evil desire to annihilate the Palestinian people.

To quote Mr. Justice Richard Goldstone from his Report on Human Rights Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict:

“The Mission is also gravely concerned at the increase use of force, including the use of lethal force, in response to demonstrations, and at the generalised violence of the security forces………………”

This act of wanton violence vindicates the report.

An International act of criminality requires an International response. The International community must not allow this Apartheid entity to strangulate the Palestinians by starving Gaza. The law of the jungle must not be allowed to prevail.

We call on civil society and COSATU and all its affiliates to launch an immediate blockade on ships and goods entering South Africa at all ports of entry. Let this be Israel’s Sharpeville.

For how long will the humiliated Arab “leaders” like Mubarak, Abbas, Abdullah and the Sheikhs and Kings conspire with the brutal Israeli Zionists in starving the innocent women and children in Gaza?

The MRN and MJC urge them to gain some self-respect and decorum of dignity and honour by joining the oppressed masses suffering at the bloody hands of the Zionist oppressors.

We also call, on our Government and our department of International Relations and Cooperation to immediately review our ties with the Zionist entity and to adopt a principled position regarding oppression and oppressive nature of this illegal regime.

We urge our Government to initiate an urgent legal process to secure the prosecution of the State of Israel for its perpetual war crimes and violations of international law pertaining to its piracy in international waters.

We also believe our Government has a responsibility to immediately arrange for our Mission in Tel Aviv to gain access to the injured and the detained, including the South African radio journalist, Khadijah Davids, of Cape Radio 786, and to demand their immediate release.

Iqbal Jassat                        
Chairman,
Media Review Network
Cell: 083 594 3749
E-mail: mrn_ij@telkomsa.net

Moulana Ighsaan Hendriks
President of the Muslim Judicial Council
Cape Town
South Africa
Cell: 083 384 6973
E-mail: mediadesk@mjc.org.za

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Israeli misinformation

Our main media organizations have willingly allowed Israeli spokespeople to fill the airwaves with misinformation. Let’s reiterate a few simple facts. 

By Jonathan Cook

It is quite astounding that Israel has been able to create over the past 12 hours a news blackout, just as it did with its attack on Gaza 18 months ago, into which our main media organisations have willingly allowed Israeli spokespeople to step in unchallenged.

How many civilians were killed in Israel’s dawn attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla of aid? We still don’t know. How many wounded? Your guess is as good as mine. Were the aid activists armed with guns? Yes, says Israel. Were they in cahoots with al-Qaeda and Hamas? Certainly, says Israel. Did the soldiers act reasonably? Of course, they faced a lynch, says Israel.

If we needed any evidence of the degree to which Western TV journalists are simply stenographers to power, the BBC, CNN and others are amply proving it. Mark Regev, Israel’s propagandist-in-chief, has the airwaves largely to himself.

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Terror threats to world cup 2010

PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE UNITED MUSLIM FORUM OF SOUTH AFRICA

Issued: 07/06/2010

We the under mentioned organizations making up the United Muslim Forum of South Africa:

Somali Association of South Africa
Al Bayaan Islamic Council Trust (Somali community)
Jamiat ul Ulema
Channel Islam International
Muslim Judicial Council
Media Review Network
Jamiat ul Ulema Gauteng
Sunni Ulema Council of S.A.
Muslim Lawyers Association
Muslim Students Association – Wits
Association of Muslim Accountants and Lawyers
Call of Islam
Jameah Mehmoodiya Springs
KZN Society for the protection of Human Rights
Jamiat ul Ulema KZN
Islamic Research Organisation
Radio Islam
Saaberie Chishty
United Ulema Council of South Africa
Darul Ihsaan
Mujlisul Ulema
Jamiat ul Ulema Easter Cape
South African National Zakaah Fund
Samnet

1. We categorically deny any justification for any local or international Muslims or organizations to want to jeopardize the World Cup and the safety of those who are attending the World Cup Tournament.

2. We find the allegations that any local or international Muslim and or Muslim organization would want to jeopardize the peace, stability and security in South Africa by attacking the World Cup as  deeply offensive and highly insulting

3. We express concern and repudiate certain media reports implicating Muslims in alleged campaigns of terror threats directed at the 2010 World Cup.

4. We note with concern media reports implicating Muslims from inter alia, Pakistan Somalia, Bangladesh, and India, as having the prospect of perpetuating xenophobia and Islamophobia.

5.  We categorically state that we know of no plans from the Muslim community to jeopardize the safety of the World Cup.  We express concern however that there may be a conspiracy to raise false flags against the Muslim community and to implicate the local and international Muslim community in unsubstantiated allegations of terror threats to the 2010 World Cup.

6.  We categorically repudiate any suggestion that there exists credible evidence that either local or international Muslims are attempting to jeopardize the safety of the World Cup.

7. At a meeting convened by representatives of the forum, it was agreed that we seek an urgent meeting with the relevant authorities to raise concerns about the possibility of Israeli manipulation in framing Muslims in any possible attacks.

8.  We welcome the assurances provided by the Ministry of Safety and Security, / Intelligence, and Mozambique authorities refuting baseless allegations from faceless sources.  

Issued by the United Muslim Forum of S.A.

Convener:       Zahid Asmal 0847868937 –  zahid@ciinetwork.net

Spokespersons: Iqbal Jassat –  0835943749 – mrn_ij@telkomsa.net

                           Moulana Ebrahim Bham  – 0837862859

                           Moulana Ighsaan Hendriks – 0833846937

                           Mufti  Ebrahim Desai 031 785 1048

 

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