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Legal aid groups offer to help Muslims - they need YOUR help

by American Immigration Lawyers Association Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2002 at 6:57 PM

The article below refers to a questionnaire for those who endured last weeks INS outrage. On Sunday, the American Immigration Lawyers Association issued a questionnaire for the immigrants to fill out. The American Immigration Law Foundation, the National Immigration Forum and the American Anti-Defamation Committee also have appealed to the immigrants to fill out the forms. Insha'Allah the questionnaire is available at: http://www.aila.org/specialreg.html

The article below refers to a questionnaire for those who endured last weeks INS outrage.
On Sunday, the American Immigration Lawyers Association issued a questionnaire for the immigrants to fill out. The American Immigration Law Foundation, the National Immigration Forum and the American Anti-Defamation Committee also have appealed to the immigrants to fill out the forms.

Insha'Allah the questionnaire is available at:

http://www.aila.org/specialreg.html


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Legal aid groups offer to help Muslims
By Anwar Iqbal
UPI
Published 12/23/2002 3:51 PM
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021223-030655-2096r


WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- American legal aid groups have offered to help those Muslim immigrants who have to appear before the Immigration and Naturalization Service to register.

The registration is required under laws enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

Initially, people from five Muslim countries were asked to register. Later, 13 more countries were added to the list.

Last week, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were also added. Pakistani and Saudi nationals are required to register before Feb. 21.

Those who arrive for interviews at an INS office are also fingerprinted and photographed. Many have to wait, sometimes for days, for the interview. And until the INS officers are done with them, they are kept in virtual detention.

Their fingerprints, pictures and the information they provide are matched against an FBI database for terrorists and criminals. Those unlucky ones who are not cleared by the computer, are arrested, sent to prison and may face deportation proceedings. It may take years before they are either released or sent home.

Although the INS has acknowledged detaining 400 people so far, the American Civil Liberties Union says the number is much higher.

"Most of them were out of status," says Justice Department spokesman Jorge Martinez. "It is the duty and the responsibility of the INS to temporarily detain those who are found out of status."

Some of them have been released on bail, says Martinez. Others await judgment in jail cells.

Meanwhile, human rights and legal aid groups have stepped in to help the immigrants. The ACLU has urged the government to cancel special registration because, it says, the process smacks of racial and ethnic profiling.

On Sunday, the American Immigration Lawyers Association issued a questionnaire for the immigrants to fill out. The American Immigration Law Foundation, the National Immigration Forum and the American Anti-Defamation Committee also have appealed to the immigrants to fill out the forms.

"Your answers to this questionnaire will be used to assess problems and potential violations of rights in the registration process. We will not share identifying information with anyone without your permission," says a joint statement issued by the country's five major advocacy groups.

The sponsors are asking the immigrants already interviewed by INS officials to tell them how did they hear of special registration. Those ordered to register while visiting an INS office for other immigration benefits -- such as adjustment of status, work permit, advance parole - have been asked to inform the sponsors.

They also have been asked to name the place where they went for registration and whether they were able to register or prevented from doing so.

The applicants have also been asked to tell if they had access to legal advice and whether they were allowed to take their lawyers with them for the interview.

They have been advised to share their experience, particularly the problems they might have faced during the registration, with the advocacy groups.

Those made to sign papers during the interview have been advised to tell immigration lawyers what papers they signed and did the INS photocopy their documents or kept the originals.

Those detained should tell the lawyers where were they detained, for how long and when and how were they released. Those still in custody have been asked to get in touch with the sponsoring associations.

Those released have been asked to tell what conditions did the INS set for their released and whether they were released on bail.

Those forced into deportation proceedings during the registration, have been asked to tell where and when the proceedings began.

The sponsors say the questions are based on the rights all immigrants, including visitors, enjoy in the United States. Individuals who have had their rights violated can seek legal recourse.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021223-030655-2096r
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concerned taxpayer

by Lou Thursday, Jan. 02, 2003 at 5:20 PM

Greetings I would like to know why its unresonable to
ask question anyone of middle eastern origin in regards to whats going on. Who has vowed to destroy us if not the muslims. Our whole way of life has changed & the cost to our society & economy is great. Our worst nightmare is to have a bunch of fanatics preaching haterd.Yes you have brought this on yourselves. All gate crashing law breakers go home.
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Islamic Education

by BA Friday, Jan. 03, 2003 at 11:32 AM

audio: RealAudio metafile

The Muslim Woman Magazine: Hosted by Doaa 'Amer
(Aired from Egypt)

Host: Our report today will be a little different, because our guest is a very young girl, a Muslim girl, but a true Muslim. Allah willing, may our God give us the strength to educate our children the same way, so that the next generation will turn out to be true Muslims who understand that they are Muslims and know who their enemies are. This girl will introduce herself immediately. She is the daughter of my sister in faith, and of the artist Wagdi Al-Arabi . Her name is Basmallah and we will ask her as well.

Questions and Answers

Host: Peace be upon you. Allah's mercy and blessing upon you. What's your name?
Basmallah: Basmallah.

Host: Basmallah, how old are you?
Basmallah: Three and a half.

Host: Are you a Muslim?
Basmallah: Yes.

Host: Basmallah, are you familiar with the Jews?
Basmallah: Yes.

Host: Do you like them?
Basmallah: No.

Host: Why don't you like them?
Basmallah: Because...

Host: Because they are what?
Basmallah: They're apes and pigs.

Host: Because they're apes and pigs? Who said they are so?
Basmallah: Our God.

Host: Where did he say this?
Basmallah: In the Koran.

Host: Right, he said that about them in the Koran. - Okay, Basmallah, what are the Jews doing?
Basmallah: The Pepsi company.

Host: You also know about the boycott, Basmallah? Did they love our master Muhammad?
Basmallah: No.

Host: No, what did the Jews do to him?
Basmallah: The Prophet Muhammad killed someone..

Host: Obviously, our master Muhammad was strong and could have killed them. All right, you know the traditions about the Jews and what they did to the Prophet Muhammad? Is there a story you know?
Basmallah: Yes, the story about the Jewish woman.

Host: The Jewish woman? What did she do to our master the Prophet Muhammad?
Basmallah: The Jewish woman?

Host: Yes.
Basmallah: There was a Jewish woman who invited the Prophet and his friends. When he asked her, 'Did you put poison (in my food)?' she said to him, 'Yes.' He asked her, 'Why did you do this?' and she replied: 'If you are a liar - you will die and Allah will not protect you; if you speak the truth - Allah will protect you.'

Host: And our God protected the Prophet Muhammad, of course.
Basmallah: And he said to his friends: 'I will kill this lady.'

Host: Of course, because she put poison in his food, this Jewess.

Host: Basmallah, Allah be praised, Basmallah, Allah be praised. May our God bless her. No one could wish Allah could give him a more believing girl than she… May Allah bless her and her father and mother. The next generation of children must be true Muslims. We must educate them now while they are still children so that they will be true Muslims.
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