Dear Momineen
Salaam Alaikum,

SACRIFICIAL ANIMAL’S CAMP FOR MARTYRS CHILDREN (Bakra Mandi)

Each year Shaheed Foundation Pakistan REGD. manages a camp of sacrificial animals for the Martyrs Children.

Sacrificial animals are bought from amounts secured from our esteemed donors well before Eid ul Adha.

Then a central bakra mandi is organized and martyrs children are invited to the camp. On camp day Children come to the camps along with their working members, move around and choose the sacrificial animal of their liking for themselves. The animal is thus reserved for them as a gift and they take it back home happily.

It serves a multiple purposes. On one hand it gives them awareness of religious duty on Eid-E-Qurban .It also teaches them philosophy of sacrifice. It averts any sense of deprivation that might be produced as a result of seeing other children of their age, who visit with parents and elders to get a sacrificial animal. Besides its a healthy activity and only if you have visited our camp on Eid -e-Qurban can you really make out how much happiness it gives to you when the young angels are all smiles on getting their ‘bakras’.

You and all other dear momineen in your domain are requested to kindly participate with great fervour in this project.

Inshallah this year Shaheed Foundation intends to buy inshallah 250 animals (bakras) @ Rs. 6000 / bakra with your support and cooperation.

Jazakallahu Khaira.
Wassalam Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah

The deputy director of the Hamas political bureau says the Islamic Resistance Movement is the pulse of the Arab and Islamic nations.

This is because Hamas is the main advocate of resistance against Zionist occupation and remains adamant about the Palestinian nation’s demands, Moussa Abu Marzouq said in Damascus on Saturday in a speech on the latest developments in Palestine.

He went on to say that Hamas takes into account the Palestinian people’s interests when deciding on the means of resistance.

The Hamas official also noted that considerable efforts are being made to revive the resistance in the West Bank despite the Israeli clampdown and the Ramallah authority’s opposition.

Abu Marzouk stated that Hamas has played a major role in digging tunnels underneath the Rafah border as part of the efforts to provide Gazans food and clothing.

The Hamas official insisted that acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas should have tried to convince Israel to allow the entry of the people’s daily necessities over the ground and should have tried to prevent Israeli attacks on the Gaza tunnels.

Israel has mounted relentless attacks on the tunnels, which are the only means for the 1.5 million Palestinians in the beleaguered territory to break the Israeli-Egyptian blockade.

The siege, which has been in place since a failed coup by rival Fatah against the democratically elected Hamas government in June 2007, has pushed the densely populated coastal sliver to the verge of starvation.

Hospital officials say over 120 Palestinians have died in tunnel collapse incidents or have been killed by Israeli air raids on the network since mid-2007.

Saudi authorities closed on the past few days two Shia mosques in Ras Tanura and Abqaiq, Eastern Province, to add to the already seven closed Shia mosques.

Sources informed that security forces closed the only Ismaili mosques in Ras Tanura and stopped Shia citizens from performing Jamaa prayer since last Friday.

Prior to the closure of the above mosque, the Shia mosque in Abqaiq was alos closed on last Friday.

Some internet sites reported that one Shia mosque in Jubail was also closed by authorities.

Shia public figures in Eastern Province are attempting to meet with Saudi officials to reopen the closed mosques.

Saudi authorities close Shia mosques with the excuse of not having permit to open these mosques and at the same time refuse to grant Shia citizens the permission to built new mosques when they apply for it.

Last month, two top secret circulars from Eastern Province Emara stressed that all Shia mosques must be closed in cities of Khobar, Dammam and Khafji.

Both circulars contained sectarian orders to enforce a ban on Shia building mosques or religious houses outside the Shia majority cities of Qatif, Hassa and Najran.

The annual US State Department report on International Religious Freedom condemned Saudi Arabia for its violations against Shia citizens.

The last week’s report ranked Saudi Arabia as one of the top “Religious Freedom” violators.

The report highlighted that Saudi Shia citizens are suffering a significant political, economic, legal, social, and religious discrimination, including limited employment and educational opportunities, underrepresentation in official institutions, and restrictions on the practice of their faith and on the building of places of worship and community centers.

This is the second report that shed light on Saudi violation to human rights and discrimination against Shia citizens.

There is just some pictures of Yemeni Shia civilians, where Saudi and Yemeni forces brutally attacked them. Just see and judge.????!!!

In its week-long offensive in northern Yemen, Saudi forces have attacked residential areas and border villages, killing and wounding several people.

According to local Yemeni sources, the Saudi air and artillery assaults against the civilians were launched overnight.

The Saudi Army also deployed one of its main brigades from the southern province of Jizan to northern Yemen early Monday morning, the sources reported. The army’s Fourth Brigade consists of at least 13,000 troops.

Saudi authorities have also blocked border roads since Saturday in order to utilize them for the movement of armored trucks and military vehicles.

Saudi Arabia launched its Yemen offensive more than two month after the Yemeni government launched its ‘Operation Scotched Earth’ to crush the Houhti resistance in the mountainous north.

The Houthis have been accused of seeking to restore a religious establishment that was overthrown in 1962. The fighters, however, stress that they only want an end to the social, economic and political ‘discrimination’ against them in the country, as well as the Saudi-backed attempts to spread Wahabism in the north.

Wahabism is a Saudi-based sect that preaches radical misinterpretations of Islam that encourages violence against anyone that does not share their system of beliefs.