For Kashmir news links, look at the following website:

http://www.jklf.info/

Qaiser K

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16313163/

Kathy Cummings

The cost of Islamophobia

What is the impact on Muslims and other Americans of Arab descent? One, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Inter-Press Services:

“It sometimes feels suffocating being in the US now. We cannot turn on our TV in the evening to watch CNN or MSNBC or the other ‘news

stations’ because of people like Glenn Beck and others who consistently spew hate, nonsense and misinformation about Islam and Arabs on

primetime. And if we try to watch mindless drama on TV we are bombarded with shows about Middle East/Arab and Islamic terrorism — shows

like 24, Sleeper Cell, The Agency, etc. It is very difficult being an Arab/Muslim American these days.” Following September 11, the US Department

of Justice began rounding up Arabs and other Muslims and — mistakenly — anybody who looked “Middle Eastern”, including Sikhs from South Asia.

In the months after the attacks, some 5,000 men were held in detention without charges, most without access to lawyers or family members. As

confirmed in an investigation by the DOJ inspector-general, many were held in solitary confinement and physically abused. There were no prosecutions

and no convictions of any of these people. Some, who were in the US with expired visas or who had committed other immigration infractions, were deported.

http://www.jordantimes.com/sun/opinion/opinion4.htm 

Timothy Stinson

Complete text of the following two books is now available online.

After Fascism:
Muslims and the Struggle for Self-determination

By: ABID ULLAH JAN

ISBN: 978-0-9733687-5-8

pages: 283

Pragmatic Publishing

The author gives a comparative analysis of the tyrannies of different kids to show what human beings are facing today and where Muslims are heading in their struggle for freedom and independence from continued colonialism. This book provides a perspective for peace activists in the West and advocates of the Islamic movements for self-determination in the East to ponder anew over the identified crucial points.

http://www.icssa.org/article_detail_parse.php?a_id=805&rel=

Afghanistan:
The Genesis of the Final Crusade

By: ABID ULLAH JAN

ISBN: 0-9733687-2-1 

Pages: 354

Publisher: Pragmatic Publishing

Published: May 10, 2006 

This book gives the first and only clearest and most persuasive explanation of how Osama bin Laden was set up for shouldering the blame of 9/11 attacks, why the Taliban become a prime target of Islamophobes and why perpetrators of 9/11 felt the need to commit this heinous crime. This is the first book which does more than devastatingly refute the mendacity of the US Afghanistan policy and proves that the war on Afghanistan is illegal and illegitimate by all standards of international law. Abid Jan presents a chilling portrait of the religious forces which have commandeered American foreign policy, revealing the arrogance, assumptions and contradictions about Islam that have had such disastrous consequences, not only for Afghanistan but the world at large.

http://www.icssa.org/article_detail_parse.php?a_id=804&rel=