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Jalil Abdul Muntaqim: Political Prisoner Since 1971

Jalil Muntaqim has spent forty one of his sixty years locked behind bars, paying a heavy price for his participation in the Black Liberation Movement, a struggle he has never abandoned, even behind bars.

A Youth of Concious

Jalil, born on October 18, 1951, in Oakland, California, grew up in a family environment imbued with an awareness of the political battles of the day, of the history of Black people in amerika and the struggle for freedom that has been waged on this continent for centuries. As he has explained,

My mother taught us [my sister and I] that we are African. She made that a very important lesson for us; she said, “You are African, don’t let anybody call you anything other than that.” … In our house we used to have pictures of H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X – so these individuals, these were our icons in the household …

In the 1960s Jalil attended high school in San Jose, California, where he earned a scholarship to an advanced high school math and science program. He also received a summer scholarship for a San Jose State College math and engineering course. Jalil participated in NAACP youth organizing during the civil rights movement. In high school, he became a leading member of the Black Student Union, often touring in “speak-outs” with the BSU Chairman of San Jose State and City College.

As he has stated in the documentary Jalil Muntaqim: A Voice for Liberation:

The assassination of Martin Luther King, that’s one thing that impacted me. The other thing that really impacted me was the 1968 Olympics when John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their fists in protest – that was significant. John Carlos used to be one of my math tutors, so the culture, the African culture and the politics and the time, the struggle that was going on, the civil rights movement that was going on at that time, being a part of that and being impressed by that – and then, on the other hand seeing the Black Panther Party taking this other stroke after the death of Martin Luther King – after his assassination I began to realize that maybe this non-violent protest thing in not going to be all that there’s going to be in order to make real changes in this country.

The Dark Day

Two months shy of his 20th birthday, Jalil was captured along with Albert “Nuh” Washington in a midnight shoot-out with San Francisco police. When Jalil was arrested, he was a high school graduate and employed as a social worker.

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The Case of Maryam Uloho

05 May

‘… Sister Maryam Uloho has had her shoulder dislocated by a prison guard. The guard that attacked Maryam Uloho and dislocated her shoulder should be brought up on charges and dismissed. She is unable to receive packages of basic needs of religious items because she is being punished for refusing sex with a staff member at LCIW. Is this a state run correctional facility or a concentration camp? These women have the right to be treated humanly even while incarcerated.’

From a letter dated 4 December 2003

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A Pregnant Lewthwaite Flees Kenya’s Kangaroo Courts

11 Mar

A top Kenyan police official said Samantha Lewthwaite was part of a group of British citizens and other foreign nationals who arrived in Kenya last year to seek refuge from an increasingly hostile police state in Britain. It was alleged that she was in charge of finances for the group of immigrants.

Officials in Kenya have increased the practice of arbitrary detention of foreigners and Kenyan Muslims in fear that collaborations between elements sympathetic to the re-unification group al-Shabaab may plan an attack to stop the Kenyan invasion of Southern Somalia initiated this past October.

Lewthwaite came under Kenyan scrutiny as British officials passed intelligence to Mombasa indicating that she was the widow of one of the alleged 7/7 bombers, Jermaine Lindsay. After the bombings in 2005, Lewthwaite was vociferous in her denunciation of the attacks as documented by major British media. Currently, the intelligence concerning Lewthwaite is circulated between the CIA, Scotland Yard, English Metropolitan Police, as well as the Kenyan Anti-Terrorism Unit.

Her whereabouts are unknown although it is widely assumed that she might have sought refuge in Shabaab controlled Somalia. Lewthwaite, traveling with three children, is pregnant, the official also said, and remarried to a Kenyan who has also fled the country. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by aseerun on March 11, 2012 in News Items

Tags: 7/7, al-Shabab, corruption, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Fouad Abubakr Manswab, Jermaine Grant, Jermaine Lindsay, Kenya, Musa Hussein Abdi, Samantha Lewthwaite, setup, Somalia, Warda Breik

Cheryfa Jamal: Her & Her Family, Victims of Canadian ‘War on Terror’

04 Aug

On the third and second of June, 2006, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service carried out a series of brutal raids in eastern Canada arresting 17 people, five of whom are teenagers, in what was pitched and swallowed by the media as a Canada’s “home grown” Islamic terrorist cell. Quickly dubbed the “Toronto Seventeen”, authorities alleged that this group of “Muslim extremists” were planning to blow up Canada’s Parliament, the CSIS’s headquarters, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and even planned to storm the Canadian parliament and behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper and that by only a stroke of luck, Canada’s security apparatus was able to foil the so-called plot.

The long and the short of the government’s case against Qayyum Jamal, Steven Chand, Shareef Abdelhaleem, Yasim Mohamed, Jahmaal James, Mohammed Dirie, Fahim Ahmad, Asad Ansari, Ahmad Ghany, Zakaria Amara, Amin Durrani, Saad Khalid and five other young offenders who can not be named was, at the time, said to be based on the allegation that Zakaria Amara, age 20, had allegedly ordered three metric tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer to be used to manufacture a bomb capable of carrying out an attack on the scale of the Oklahoma bombing.

From the start, it read like a page out of RCMP Special Forces handbook presented by Canada’s leak-dripping Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). But soon after, the story quickly changed when it was learned that the RCMP used an informant to carry out a “sting” operation and had replaced the real ammonium nitrate fertilizer with “a harmless substance” No ammonium nitrate, no crime right? Not so. Regardless of the brutality of the raids, the discrimination and racism, the guilty-before-trial press made hay, the Canadian government is proceeding with the case and for the most part, Canadians breathed easier knowing that the authorities had thwarted an “Al-Qaeda styled” attack just in the nick of time. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by aseerun on August 4, 2011 in Collateral Damage

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The Woman Who Wore Her Hijab

16 Jul

She entered the gates of prison for the first time
and was told to remove “the rag” from her head.
“No, it’s my Islamic right to wear it,” she said.
“This is a prison, your rights mean nothing here,” the guard replied.
She stood even taller.
When told to remove her hijab again,
she responded softly,
“No, it’s my Islamic right to wear it.”

They placed handcuffs and shackles around her wrists and ankles.
They paraded her through the compound,
where she was laughed at, scored, mocked.
But she walked tall and smiling,
still wearing her hijab.
She walked into that “hole” with her head high,
wearing her hijab.
“They’d find out,” she assured herself,
“that this woman is a true Muslim.”

The inmates tried to destroy her.
Some threw water.
Others spat, yelled and cursed.
But still she wore her hijab.
She sat in that “hole” for so long,
they forgot she was even there.
They knew they’d break her,
or so they thought.
They’d broken everyone before her.

But when they finally came to see if she was broken,
she only smiled and said,
“As-Salaamu Alaikum.”
Her face glowed.
They looked at the peace in her expression and said,
“Take her to her dorm.”