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Muslim leaders were categorical in asserting that the recent unprecedented attack on Lebanon
and Gaza by Israel was part of the wider war on Islam sanctioned by the United States and
Britain.
The brutal attack which left more than 1,000 Lebanese and Palestinians dead, mostly women
and children, is part of the campaign to obliterate Islam in the guise of fighting terror.
Mandera Central Member of Parliament Billow Adan Kerrow said Western leaders have at
long last admitted attempts are in place to crush Islam. They have put in clear words, in
black and white that there are fighting Islam and not terrorism, said the MP referring to
British Prime Minister Tony Blairs recent remarks that the West is fighting reactionary Islam.
Billow was addressing a rally in Nairobi called to denounce the Israeli aggression and
atrocities committed against the Lebanese and Palestinian people last Friday outside Jamia
masjid. Speakers at the rally held included three MPs, Muslim leaders and human rights
activists.
A ceasefire agreement undertaken by the United Nations ended the month long conflict on
Monday which many analyst said was a humiliating defeat to Israel by the rag tag Lebanese
Hizbullah militia.
Reactionary Muslims are those who are steadfast in following teachings of Islam. They
want to see a Muslim in name only, one who does not subscribe to the teachings of Islam,
Billow said.
He told the gathering that the United States and Britain worked in complicity with the Israelis
who were given a blank cheque to massacre innocent people and to destroy the country.
Israel is the only country in the world which is allowed to break international laws, to kill and
maim the innocent.
All this is because they do no want to hear about Islam, the MP who is also the Kanu
shadow minister of Finance added.
The speakers also lashed out at the government for its attitude toward Muslims in the
country stressing that many innocent Muslims had suffered as a result of the so-called war
on terror.
Isiolo South MP Abdul Bahari decried the arrest and oppression of Muslims by the State and
urged Muslims to unite in agitating for their rights as citizens of the country.
Bura MP Ali Wario asserted that the so-called campaign on terror was a tool to intimidate and
prosecute Kenyan Muslims to fulfil the ambitions of foreign powers.
Addressing the gathering, the Imam of Landhies masjid in Nairobi, Sheikh Ahmad Uthman
took issue with the government for harassing Muslims adding that the government which
was brought to power on the platform of respecting human rights was engaging the police to
undertake Guantanamo-style torture methods against its citizens.
Furthermore, the Imam said, the anti-terrorism Bill was being pushed by the Americans to
further aggravate the campaign of oppression against Muslims.
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Nobodys victory, but in the end Israel could not defeat Hizbollah
Peter Beaumont,
Ariel Sharon. For what Israelis have not been slow to notice is that
A month of fighting, more than 1,000 dead, upwards of 800,000
Olmert has signally failed to achieve what he set out to do: destroy
Lebanese displaced and $2bn worth of damage - for what? Who
Hizbullah. The victory being claimed is diffuse and very partial: in
wins in this bloody debacle, assuming it is coming to an end? Given
securing a UN resolution sort-of-on-its-terms and by reducing (by
the continued fighting, that is still a big assumption. Not Israel, certainly.
who knows what amount) Hizbullahs capability. Beyond that Hizbullah
Even while the authors of this military adventure continue to try to
has survived largely intact, but pushed back a little further from Israels
carve out some notion of victory to sell the Israeli public, increasingly
border.
fewer people are buying it.
Then there are the imponderables. The nature of the Israeli campaign
The likes of deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres have tried to promote
in Lebanon, with its scorched-earth policy designed to drive out local
the notion that Israel has got everything it wants out of the war - and
populations, its mendacious claim that it had allowed humanitarian
from Fridays disgracefully late UN resolution calling for an immediate
corridors when it had not, its lack of concern for the killing of civilians
cessation of violence (on which Israel is still being permitted by the
(and callous explanation that dead civilians should have fled when
US to drag its feet) - but the reality is that the prosecutors of this war
threatened) has amplified the increasing sense abroad that this is a
have lost more than they have won.
country which does not care about international law.
Whatever Israel does now, it is seriously diminished. In military terms
Though the world has long demonstrated a habit of forgetting Israels
it has been confronted successfully for a second time by the guerillas
misdemeanours, this war has dramatised
of Hizbullah. Again and again, its heavilythe urgent need for a return to a proper
armoured Merkava tanks have been
Middle East peace plan, a negotiated
rocketed to a standstill. All its technology
process that will be less generous to Israel
and its large army have been shown
than its own unilaterally-applied
lacking the deftness and determination of
convergence plan. There is a danger too
a vastly smaller force lacking armoured
that if Americas unconditional support for
vehicles, bombers and aircraft. Most
Israel in this affair damages its wider policy
seriously, its vulnerability to missile attack
in the Middle East - in Shia-majority Iraq,
has been amply demonstrated to any
where there are tens of thousands of US
enemy, despite its possession of US antitroops, and over Iran - Israel may feel that it
missile batteries. Israel has lost one of its
squandered a high point in its relationship
most powerful weapons - the
with Washington for little real advantage.
psychological sense of its military
So who has won? Not Israel. Certainly not
invulnerability.
It is something for which Israelis are Some of the innocent victims of the Israel terrorist Lebanon or its fragile democracy, the
development of both of which will have been
unlikely to forgive those behind a war which
attacks in Lebanon
pushed back half a decade and more. But
evidence now suggests was being
what about Hizbullah? What can be said is that, on its own terms, it
planned long before the kidnap of two Israeli soldiers. Even before
has not lost. Not yet. It has resisted Israel and thus far at least has
the UN resolution was agreed, support for the conflict, though still
survived, which was all it had to achieve. If it continues to survive until
substantial, was steadily beginning to erode, confronted by a constant
an international force is deployed - which seems likely - then the issue
stream of casualties from the fighting for little geographical and
of its disarmament will have disappeared again into some vague
strategic gain. Indeed, Israels only major victory thus far was the
future. In psychological terms, it can claim that its few fighters have
capture of the largely Christian town of Marjayoun - peopled with its
inflicted disproportionate damage on the Israelis for a second time,
former collaborators with Israels allies from the South Lebanese
and put the issue of the Shebaa farms on the negotiating table.
Army - a few kilometres across the border.
But the real test for Hizbullah will be applied not by the international
Instead, in the past two weeks both the Israeli military and its political
community but by Lebanon itself, which must decide if the price it paid
masters have come under attack for their prosecution of the war. And
for Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah to claim bragging rights
if one figure now appears most at risk it is Prime Minister Ehud
was far, far too high.
Olmert, a cold fish who tried and failed to be tougher than his mentor,
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