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A Benefit from Prison – When They Turn Their Backs on You!

An elderly man who was in one of the many prisons I’ve resided in the past decade, opened his heart to me, telling me how prominent he was in his community and throughout the states. He sat in agony because the hundreds or rather thousands that he extended his arms to, had all turned away from him in his time of need.

He was alone and hurt and overwhelmed with worries. His family was unable to maintain their house due to tremendous financial hardships. With a feeling of helplessness, he turned to his old, lifelong friends–the ones he had no doubt would always be there to help him. The ones he loved dearly. He loved his brothers and students as much as, if not more than, his own family.

This brother devoted his time and effort to them. He ran to them to help ease any of their hardships he was made aware of. They were the ones whom he thought to be his soul or even closer. But as the days went on, they turned away from him. As the entire world turned their backs on him, so too did the brothers and students he thought so highly of.

He pleaded that they listen and asked his family to contact them—to no avail. The brothers had no mercy on the tears dripping uncontrollably down the cheeks, nor the weeping heart aching with pain. They turned their back on him. They lied and procrastinated to the family and made the family feel like a burden. And in the end, they disappeared like a mirage, leaving the family with no help or hope in obtaining help from any of Allah’s creations.

The darkness in this elderly man’s dark cell became even darker. He felt betrayed and abandoned and thought back to how he would have treated those very same brothers if the tables were turned. Never in his wildest dreams would he have abandoned any of his brothers or students. The more he thought about what he would have done, the more he was convinced that his brothers and students were treacherous and deceitful.

This elderly brother found his days with no daylight. He was the imam of a big center. He performed their marriage ceremonies, he buried their dead. He was there for them in their hardships and helped them resolve family problems. By Allah’s Mercy, his counseling kept families intact, and he helped bring people closer together. And now, they all turned their backs on him, with no exceptions.

I said to him, “Enough ya Sheikh! Enough grief and enough crying. Enough feeling used when WE USED THEM!”

He said, “How?”

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Posted by aseerun on June 10, 2012 in Collateral Damage, Maktabah

Tags: abandonment, community, family

CagePrisoners: Family Fun Day

25 Sep

Cageprisoners will be hosting a Family Funday fundraising event Thursday 27^th of October between 13:00-18:00 PM at the London Muslim Centre located at 92 Whitechaple Rd,London E1 1JX.

Entry will be Free for all Sisters and for children ages 11 and younger.

The fun family event will include many games and activities for children and their parents such as: Henna Painting, a Bouncy Castle and a Free Raffle Draw and many vendors and stalls will be available including: Food Stalls, Book Stalls, Women’s Clothes Stalls, Health & Beauty Products, Jewelery Stalls, Perfume Stalls and much, much more.

For additional information or to book a stall call 07989 163 360 or email Cageprisoners at: fundraising@cageprisoners.com

Evil Reincarnated: The Truth About the NC7 Trial

16 Sep

After thinking for over two years about what is happening to my son, me, and a lot of innocent people in the same situation, I concluded that there are a lot of people in positions of power who are simply evil.

It began when a SWAT team arrested my son on July 27^, 2009, for a simple trip he took overseas. Everything that happened, including the arrest, was all preplanned.

Everything prior to the arrest until this day has been preplanned by the FBI, the media, and whoever works at the top.

A SWAT team came to arrest my son who was an innocent young man swimming at the pool in our apartment complex. At the time, he was contemplating which college to go to.

Now you might ask, why a SWAT team would come for an unarmed young man! But because everything was pre-staged, even the media also (who is in on it) portrayed it in a way that will send shivers down your spine to create a scare for an audience of uninformed people.

People who have never learned from their past mistakes like the Red Scare that created fear in the hearts of all Americans to justify the evil things the government had done.

Now it is a different scare that they are using; the Muslim scare, i.e. Islamophobia!

This young man, Ziyad, my son, went overseas to get married and to visit family members and was accused of material support and conspiring to kill and maim people abroad! Just think, this young man has family members living in Jordan and Jordan is one of the most peaceful countries. Further, Jordanians do not practice or support Jihad!

If you think a little bit more, why would a person suspected of committing a terrorist act or Jihad, come back to the US and resume a normal life? This, in fact, shows you how things are pre-staged, and how the FBI desperately wants to convince people that these young men, my son and his codefendants, are in fact guilty. So the FBI went ahead and arrested an acquaintance of my son, a young man who is illegally in America, scared him and threatened to deport him, then paid him to write lies against some of these accused young men.

To make it worse also for the defendants, the trial was set in September to remind people of September 11^th. As if this is not enough, because these young men are innocent, it was decided to accuse a young man named Jude of coming to the US to commit an act of terrorism on US cities! Jude is no more than 22 years old. He is overseas and the FBI is looking for him yet he was supposed to miraculously come back to the US, mind you at the time of the trial, knowing that he will be arrested if he comes back to theUS in spite of all the heightened security, to do an act of terrorism!

These ugly lies that have been created by the FBI have destroyed innocent lives! I wonder how these people can sleep at night! I wonder how some people will destroy innocent lives just so they can get paid!

I began to learn of the ugly reality of human greed at an early age and saw how many people will do so much harm and damage to others just for money! But I never imagined that my own country would betray my son and me. But since money is the root of all evil, evil seems to always prevail.

-Laila Yaghi