Prophet Muhammad vs Arabs

Rather the descendents and reverer of the descendents of Prophet
Muhammad, the shiites versus the Sunni majority Arabs.

Omar al-Bashir and 2 others may be called Arabs but they were blacks
and they don't refer themselves as the Descendents of Prophet
Muhammad, unlike one Darful Rebel who uses the Sharif title.

The Sharif title means that the holder claims to have paternal(male
descendent) linkage to Hassan, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad.

The article below has a very deep analysis of the situations in the
Middle East but it misses a few points.

The current Arab regimes are mostly undemocratic and they exist
because they are well supported by the West or Russia, not because
they abide by truely Islamic teachings. Iran, may be Shiite, those who
revere Hussin the other twin grandson of Prophet Muhammad, but it is
the only democratic Muslim state in the region that is not controlled
by the West or Russia.

It is indeed ironic that Syria, well supported by Iran, should be
voicing support for Omar Bashir but it is not really. Syrian is not
well supported by Iran, only Hezbullah in the Lebanon because they are
Shiite. Syria is supported by Russia.

Supporting Omar is not to support the struggles of Muslims especially
Palestinians, it is more to preserve their un Islamic way of governing
that are modelled after Russia.

Although their calls for the ICC to be applied to Israel and USA is
valid it is just an excuse, but if Obama were to be sincere in wanting
peace, USA must ratify the ICC and force Israel to comply with ICC
requirements and punish all those responsible for war crimes any where
on earth.

The excuse that only by committing war crimes will USA and Israel
maintain peace in Palestine is just utter nonsense. It should be the
other way round.

It is not that ICC should not convict Omar Bashir or any other war
criminal all over the world, it is just that USA should lead by
example and prove it with deeds instead of just false promises. I'm
indeed surprised that USA is not an ICC signatory.

Similarly for Malaysia. In fact, Sabah, a state in Malaysia, rich in
Petroleum resources just like Darfur but also among the poorest in the
world despite these resources, will also suffer similar fate if Sabah
were to demand independence violently. Malaysia is similar to Sudan in
many ways: poor judiciary, high GINI, poor press freedom, draconian
laws, police and army forces. Even the Jenjawed can be created easily
in Sabah and Sarawak because of the diverse ethnic groups.

In Sabah also, there are many Sharifs because they are descendents of
the Sultan of Sulu and Brunei. Sultan of Sulu, that is virtually in
rebellion within the Philippines, is also claiming Sabah and have
supported an independence movement for Sabah.

So for the sake of World Peace, USA and Malaysia must ratify the ICC
treaty. Malaysia is doubtful when its future PM, Najib is implicated
in the murder of a Mongol citizen. What complicates matter is that
China has claims over Sabah via the descendents of Sulu Sultan(the
Sharifs) that had settled in China itself.

The prophesy that Imam Mahdi, the man who helps Jesus/Isa slay the
Dajal/Anti-Christ, will be a descendent of Prophet Muhammad from the
East is taking shape.

Maybe the world is not really interested in peace when USA as the most
advanced and richest nation on earth can claim that the only way it
can protect itself and its interests is by allowing their soldiers
commit war crimes.

It is up to UK, as the former Commonweath Absolute Leader, to lead the
world to world peace because UK has signed the ICC treaty. Hopefully
it can convince all Commonwealth nations to ratify the ICC treaty for
world peace.

We must tell the world leaders that crime does not pay.
If Argentina can do it, we should help other nations to do it as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7971624.stm
Arab League urged to back Bashir
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (left) and Sudan's President Omar al-
Beshir during the opening session of the Arab League summit in Qatar
The ICC arrest warrant has been flouted by Sudan's leader

Arab leaders have been urged to reject an international arrest warrant
against President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for war crimes in Darfur.

Arrest first "those who have committed massacres and atrocities in
Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon", Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said.

He was speaking at the Arab League's annual summit of heads of state
in Qatar which Mr Bashir is attending.

The summit is also expected to discuss Iran's influence in the Middle
East.

A number of countries are concerned about Iran's influence in the
region, particularly its support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and for
Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Splits among the Arab League nations have become glaring, says the
BBC's Katya Adler who is in Doha, over Arab nations' differing
attitudes to internal Palestinian divisions between the Fatah movement
of Palestinian Authority President Mahmous Abbas and the Islamist
militant group Hamas.

SUMMIT FACTS
17 out of 22 heads of state attending
President Hosni Mubarack of Egypt is absent
President Omar al-Bashir is flouting an ICC arrest warrant to attend
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is attending
Iran is not a member of the organisation

Regional rifts stymie Arab summit

Our correspondent says Western-backed Sunni nations fear the spread of
Iranian influence - in Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq and amongst marginalised
Shia communities in the Gulf States - and are suspicious of those they
regard as Iran's Arab friends, such as Syria and Qatar.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is attending the two-
day summit, criticised Sudan's decision to expel aid agencies in
Darfur taken after the International Criminal Court arrest warrant was
issued.

"Relief efforts should not become politicised," he said.

Qatar has not signed the ICC charter, which obliges a member state to
arrest those indicted by the court when they enter its territory.

Many African states, along with Sudan's key ally China, have called
for the ICC proceedings to be suspended, arguing it will hamper
efforts to bring peace to Darfur.

'Usurped rights'

In other opening remarks, President Assad said the Arab Middle East
peace initiative launched in 2002 was ineffective because the Arabs
did not have a real peace partner in Israel.

"Peace for the Israelis is no more than a tactical option being used
as a cover-up for their long-term objectives based on the principle of
not returning our usurped rights," the Syrian president said.

One notable absentee is President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt;
correspondents say he is unhappy with Qatar's stance during the recent
Gaza conflict.

Obama must convict Israel for proven war crimes

Now that Israeli soldiers themselves have already admitted to killing
innocent, helpless civilians, what more proofs do you need to convict
Israel and Jewish Israelis who commit these war crimes.

If OBAMA were sincere in wanting world peace and cooperation of the
Muslim world, he must show his commitment to justice and peace with
actions. Words are meaningless.

It is surprising that supporters of these war crimes are silent on
these blatant admissions by honest Jewish soldiers. In fact it is the
Jews who are most vocal in defending the HELPLESS Palestinians of all
religions not just Muslim Palestinians but also Christian
Palestinians.

What happened? FActs and logics had deserted all these proven racist
bastards who continue supporting the obvious war crimes committed by
Israel. And you still want peace and respect for your racist
attitudes.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={4A0A742F-6EBA-4FC4-9C22-4C230073F9E3})&language=EN
http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/109324.html
ISRAEL ADMITS GAZA WAR CRIMES
By Skeptic

JERUSALEM — An increasingly disturbing picture of the Israeli Defense
Forces' (IDF) misconduct in the Gaza invasion has emerged as
confessions from Israeli troops describe wanton destruction of
Palestinian homes, humiliation of civilians, and loosened rules of
engagement that resulted in high civilian casualties.

An Israeli defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity
because he was not allowed to make the information public, said the
IDF used 120-mm mortar rounds, among the largest, on a large group of
civilians who had taken refuge for safety in a hospital. At least five
blast patters indicating direct hits were found on the hospital
floors.

Revelations of the IDF Gaza crimes have set off alarms in a nation
where the military is revered. They also confirm Palestinian
allegations that the IDF did not distinguish between civilians and
combatants, and the admissions also confirmed international human
rights groups' contention that Israel deliberately violated the
humanitarian laws of war.

Israel launched the Gaza offensive on Dec. 27, 2008 in what it
explained was an effort to end Palestinian rocket attacks in which
four Israeli citizens were hit. The Palestinian Center for Human
Rights, which conducted casualty count, reported a total of 1,417
people killed during the offensive, including at least 930 civilians.

Israel originally denied the findings, saying the most of the dead
were legitimate targets, but offered no evidence to back up that
allegation.

The Israeli government has insisted it did everything it could to
prevent civilian casualties. But the IDF has now ordered a criminal
inquiry into its own soldiers' reports that IDF troops deliberately
targeted civilians, including children, by shooting them or by calling
in air strikes, confident that the Israeli relaxed rules of war would
protect them.

The inquiry is based on postwar testimony from IDF soldiers who were
involved in the Israeli offensive and who were eye-witnesses. The
findings were published in a military institute newsletter and leaked
to two Israeli newspapers. The Haaretz daily published additional
details. A transcript of the IDF soldiers' confessions was obtained by
The Associated Press.

According to one account, an Israeli sniper killed a Palestinian woman
and each of her two children after they misunderstood another
soldier's shouted order and turned in the wrong direction. The sniper
was not told that the family had just been released, and so he opened
fire on them as they walked toward him.

In another account, an elderly woman was shot dead while walking alone
on a road. The soldier who described the incident, identified only as
"Aviv," said the woman was not a threat. "I simply felt it was murder
in cold blood," Aviv said, according to the transcript. "The order was
to take that woman out the moment you see her."

Aviv admitted in another instance his unit was sent to take over a
house by bursting in, going up floor by floor and shooting to death
anyone they saw alive.

"I call this murder," he said. "...they told us it was permissible
because anyone who remained in the sector and inside Gaza City, was in
effect condemned to death as a terrorist, because they hadn't yet
fled." In the end, he said he managed to change the order so residents
would be given five minutes to leave their homes, drawing protests
from other soldiers. "Anyone who's in there is a terrorist, that's a
known fact!" he quoted another soldier as saying.

Aviv said he felt an attitude among soldiers that "inside Gaza you are
allowed to do anything you want, to break down doors of houses for no
reason, other than that it's cool; to write 'Death to all Arabs' on
the walls, to take family pictures and spit on them, just because you
can" he said.

In another incident, a large group of Palestinian civilians were
herded into a school building and forced to stay inside "for their own
safety." A few minutes later, Israeli artillery strikes were called in
on the building.

Some 15,000 Palestinians packed the UN's 23 Gaza schools because their
homes were destroyed, or they were designated a safe haven from the
fighting. The UN had provided the IDF with GPS coordinates for all of
them so they could be avoided.

The IDF reported the shelling of the school - the deadliest single
episode in the first two weeks of the IDF invasion of Gaza - was a
response to mortar fire from within the school building, and that
Hamas militants were using the civilians as cover. The IDF had no
additional comment.

During the fighting, the military acknowledged it loosened the rules
of engagement aiming to reduce casualties among IDF troops.

At one point, six hundred Palestinian civilians were trapped under
fire when Israeli forces refused to allow them to leave Gaza in
safety.

Another soldier, "Ram", described what appeared to be a rift between
secular and religious soldiers. "What I do remember in particular at
the beginning was the feeling of an almost religious mission," he
said.

"Their message was very clear: 'We are the Jewish people, we came to
this land by a miracle. God brought us back to this land and now we
need to fight to expel the gentiles who are interfering with our
conquest of this holy land,'" he said.

Earlier the IDF "severely reprimanded" an officer for distributing a
religious booklet urging soldiers to show no mercy to their enemies.
The army said the chief military rabbi had not yet approved it.

The published accounts revealed debate and soul-searching among the
soldiers. Discussing the death of the old woman, one soldier, Zvi,
said the shooting could be understood in the context of the battle
zone. "Logic says she should be there," he said.

IDF trooper Yossi said his unit was forced to clean up a home it had
occupied on the same day that a Palestinian rocket wounded a mother
and baby in an Israeli city. He said soldiers were unhappy, but they
complied. "In the end, I was convinced it was the right thing to do,"
Yossi added.

Danny Zamir, the head of the military institute, called the discussion
"instructive," but also "dismaying and depressing. You are describing
an army with very low norms of value," he said.

The heavy Palestinian civilian casualties and widespread destruction
during the three-week war provoked international outcry against
Israel, which ceased fire on 18 Jan. 2009.
Keywords
israel, IDF, Crimes, Gaza

Indonesians and Filipinoes are natives of Sabah

http://www.lawnet.sabah.gov.my/viewdoc.asp?id=sabahlaws&title=...&document=statelaws/interpretationdefinitionofnativeordinance.htm

According to the British administration which is legal in Sabah and
therefore in Malaysia.

Unfortunately Kadazans, Dusuns, Muruts, Bajau(Jumo Sama) and Orang
Sungai are not mentioned. They could be classified as the is or were
members of "people indigenous to Sabah". Which means that you can be
excommunicated from your tribe, and yet, still claim nativity to
Sabah. It could refer to the Dusuns and Muruts in Indonesia.

The British refer to Tausug as Suluk as shown by this ordinance and my
birth certificate which is different from what Filipinoes call
themselves in writing i.e. Tausug.

Both people refer to themselves as Tausug in conversations in Suluk
language.

Please note thata these nativity has nothing to do with anthropology
but refer to native rights in Sabah who were given special treatment
by the British administration, such as special scholarships and land
reserves.

Current practise is awkward with the freezing of the issuance of the
native certificates. This ordinance gives the authority to decide who
are entitled to the native rights in Sabah to the native courts. Land
offices in each district have their own interpretations disallowing
Javanese any native right while allowing Suluks and Bruneis who are
Sabahans the chance to prove their residency status. Those who are
born in the Philippines and Brunei, or whose parents are born outside
Sabah, will not be considered as native.

In my case, they don't even check my birth certificate in Sandakan
when I bought a Field Reserve land through forced auction. According
to the land office, Field Reserve is equivalent to the Native Title.
This Field Reserve is for Perpetuity which is unusual nowadays.

STATE OF SABAH

INTERPRETATION (DEFINITION OF NATIVE)

ORDINANCE

(Sabah Cap. 64)

LIST OF AMENDMENTS

Ordinance/

Enactment No.

Sections amended

Effective date

of amendment

20/1958

2(1)(b), (c), (d), (3),

3(1)(b), (c), (d)

23-12-1958

G.N.S. 87/1965

2(1)(a), (b), (c), (d),

3(1)(d)

16-9-1963

10/1983

3(2), (3)

1-1-1984

To define the expression "native" in a more precise manner and to make
certain consequential provisions thereon.

[10th December, 1952.]

1. Short title.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation
(Definition of Native) Ordinance.
2. Interpretation.

(1) Wherever the word "native", used as a substantive, occurs
in any written law in force at the commencement of this Ordinance,
other than the Ordinances set out in the Schedule to this Ordinance,
or in any written law coming into force after the commencement of this
Ordinance, unless expressly otherwise enacted therein, it shall mean
either –

(a) any person both of whose parents are or were members of a
people indigenous to Sabah; or

(b) any person ordinarily resident in Sabah and being and
living as a member of a native community, one at least of whose
parents or ancestors is or was a native within the meaning of
paragraph (a) hereof; or

(c) any person who is ordinarily resident in Sabah, is a member
of the Suluk, Kagayan, Simonol, Sibutu or Ubian people or of a people
indigenous to the State of Sarawak or the State of Brunei, has lived
as and been a member of a native community for a continuous period of
three years preceding the date of his claim to be a native, has borne
a good character throughout that period and whose stay in Sabah is not
limited under any of the provisions of the Immigration Act, 1959/63:

Provided that if one of such person's parents
is or was a member of any such people and either lives or if deceased
is buried or reputed to be buried in Sabah, then the qualifying period
shall be reduced to two years; or

(d) any person who is ordinarily resident in Sabah, is a member
of a people indigenous to the Republic of Indonesia or the Sulu group
of islands in the Philippine Archipelago or the States of Malaya or
the Republic of Singapore, has lived as and been a member of a native
community for a continuous period of five years immediately preceding
the date of his claim to be a native, has borne a good character
throughout that period and whose stay in Sabah is not limited under
any of the provisions of the Immigration Act, 1959/63.

(2) In the definition of "native" set out in subsection (1)
hereof-

(a) "ancestor" means progenitor in the direct line other than a
parent;

(b) "native community" means any group or body of persons the
majority of whom are natives within the meaning of paragraph (a) of
subsection (1) and who live under the jurisdiction of a Local
Authority established under the provisions of the Rural Government
Ordinance* or of a Native Chief or Headman appointed under the
provisions of that Ordinance;

(c) "parent" includes any person recognised as a parent under
native law or custom.

(3) No claim by any person to be a native by virtue of the
provisions of paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (1) shall be
recognised as valid unless supported by an appropriate declaration
made by a Native Court under section 3.
†3. Powers of Native Courts.

(1) Any person claiming to be a native may apply to a Native
Court established under the Native Courts Enactment, 1992‡ and having
jurisdiction in the area in which such person resides to declare –

(a) that such person is recognised by native law and custom as
the parent or child, as the case may be, of any other person; or

(b) that such person is a member of a native community, has so
lived during any stated period, and while so living has borne a good
character; or

(c) that such person is a member of a people named in
paragraphs (c) or (d) of subsection (1) of section 2; or

(d) that a parent of such person is or was a member of a people
named in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 2 and living, or
if deceased is buried or reputed to be buried, in Sabah.

(2) Subject to the provision of subsection (3) of this section,
any Native Court referred to in subsection (1) to whom an application
is properly made under such subsection shall have exclusive
jurisdiction to entertain and determine any such application and to
make such declaration as the case requires.

(3) Any declaration of any Native Court made in the exercise of
the jurisdiction conferred upon it by subsection (2) shall be subject
to review and scrutiny by, and appeal to the District Officer or a
Board of officers appointed by the Yang di-Pertua Negeri for the
purpose.

(4) The final decision on any application made under subsection
(1) shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes in respect of the
matter or matters to which it relates.

SCHEDULE

(Section 2)

The Banishment Ordinance (Cap. 10)*.

The Christian Marriage Ordinance (Cap. 24)†.

The Labour Ordinance (Cap. 67).

* Title has been changed to Rural Administration Ordinance by section
109(2)(b) of Ordinance No. 11 of 1961.

† See G.N.S. 154 of 1958.

‡ "Native Courts Enactment, 1992" substituted for "Native Courts
Ordinance" by virtue of Enactment No. 3 of 1992.

* Cap. 10 was repealed by F.L.N. 41 of 1965.

† Cap. 24 was repealed by Act 164.