Headlines:

• Changing Faiths: Hispanic Americans Leaving Catholicism for Islam
• Israel: Support Sisi or Risk Anarchy
• US 'will not intervene in Syria as rebels don't support interests', says Top General
• Pakistani Court Indicts Musharraf in Bhutto Assassination

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Changing Faiths: Hispanic Americans Leaving Catholicism for Islam

With more than 50 million Hispanics living in the US, the Latino community is now the country's biggest minority.  While most are brought up within the Catholic Church, a number of them are turning to Islam. Precise figures are difficult to pin down as the US Census does not collect religious data, but estimates for the number of Latino Muslims vary between 100,000 and 200,000. [Source: BBC]

Israel: Support Sisi or Risk Anarchy

Israel is mounting a diplomatic effort to assist the military-backed government in Egypt to retain U.S. and international backing, according to the New York Times. The newspaper also claimed that Israel has been reassuring the Egyptian military not to worry about American threats to cut off aid. Israel plans this week to intensify its diplomatic campaign urging Europe and the United States to support the government in Egypt, the Times wrote Monday, quoting "a senior Israeli official involved in the effort" who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he supposedly fears the wrath of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who instructed ministers and other officials not to discuss the Egyptian crisis. Israeli ambassadors in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and other capitals will be lobbying foreign ministers, the official said, as leaders in Israel will press the case with diplomats from abroad, "that the military is the only hope to prevent further chaos in Cairo." "We're trying to talk to key actors, key countries, and share our view that you may not like what you see, but what's the alternative?" the official explained. "If you insist on big principles, then you will miss the essential - the essential being putting Egypt back on track at whatever cost. First, save what you can, and then deal with democracy and freedom and so on. "At this point," the official added, "it's army or anarchy." Israeli leaders have made no public statements and have refused interviews since Wednesday's bloodshed in Cairo, according to the report, but Netanyahu has "discussed the situation with Secretary of State John Kerry; Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was in Israel last week; and a visiting delegation of more than two dozen Republicans from Congress, led by the majority leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia." Israel's Defense Minister, Moshe Yaalon, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz have been discussing the matter with their U.S. counterparts, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and General Dempsey, respectively. Michael B. Oren, Israel's outgoing ambassador to the United States, has been "forcefully arguing for sustaining Washington's $1.5 billion annual aid to Egypt since the July 3 ouster of President Mohamed Morsi," adds The Times. The prime motive for Israel's diplomatic offensive, according to the report, is its concern that if the U.S. stops sending Egypt aid, it will be removing the underpinning of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. The knowledge that it would lose U.S. aid if it breaks the peace treaty with Israel is believed to be a prime consideration motivating Egypt not to tear up the treaty. "This is a very big mistake to interfere in what happens in Egypt," Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and director of its new Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam, told The Times. [Source: New York Times, Israel National News]

US 'will not intervene in Syria as rebels don't support interests', says Top General

The US will not intervene in the Syria conflict because it does not believe anti-Assad rebels would support American interests, its highest ranking military officer wrote in a letter to a congressman. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Barack Obama's chief military adviser, said that the US military was capable of taking out the Syrian government's air force and tipping the deepening struggle back in the favour of the country's opposition. But, in an extraordinarily frank assessment, Gen. Dempsey said that approach was not favoured by Washington as it would leave the US mired in another Middle Eastern war and offer little chance of peace in a country wracked by ethnic divisions. In an August 19 letter to Representative Eliot Engel, obtained by the Associated Press, Gen. Dempsey effectively ruled out even limited intervention, including US cruise missile attacks and other options that wouldn't require US troops on the ground. "Syria today is not about choosing between two sides but rather about choosing one among many sides," he said. "It is my belief that the side we choose must be ready to promote their interests and ours when the balance shifts in their favour. Today, they are not." The military chief's analysis will hardly please members of the fractured Syrian opposition leadership and some members of the Obama administration who have wanted greater support to help the rebellion end Bashar Assad's four-decade family dynasty. Despite internal disputes, some opposition groups have worked with the United States and European and Arab supporters to try to form a cohesive, inclusive movement dedicated to a democratic and multi-ethnic state. But those fighting the Assad government range wildly in political and ethnic beliefs, and not all are interested in Western support. [Source: The Telegraph]

Pakistani Court Indicts Musharraf in Bhutto Assassination

Pakistan's former strongman Pervez Musharraf was formally indicted along with seven other people on Tuesday of conspiring to assassinate former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007. Musharraf, who has been under house arrest since April, appeared Tuesday before the Anti-terrorist Court in Rawalpindi and denied the charges of conspiracy and terrorism. Among the other seven people accused of arranging Bhutto's death are two former top police officials who are currently imprisoned for their alleged involvement in the slaying.Bhutto died in an as yet unclarified December 2007 attack shortly after returning to the country from exile, and Musharraf has been linked to the assassination from the very start, although his leaving the country in 2009 temporarily stymied judicial proceedings. The former general, who first came to power in a 1999 coup, stepped down in 2008 under threat of impeachment and amid burgeoning domestic opposition. He subsequently went into self-imposed exile to escape his myriad legal troubles. Musharraf returned to Pakistan in the spring with plans to run for parliament, but the electoral commission barred his candidacy and the courts revived the cases against him that had been put aside during his absence. No previous Pakistani military ruler has been indicted. [Source: Latin American Herald Tribune]

Abu Hashim

Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Pakistan is undertaking a contact campaign in major cities of Pakistan under the title of "Nusrrah for KHILAFAH Contact Campaign," which included a large seminar in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, a city that is home to over twenty million. At a time when the Ummah's demand is Islam and Shariah, this contact campaign is to establish in our society that Islam can never

The cries of the bereaved mothers and suffocated children can only be prevailed by the shouts of the heroic free rebels who stood between the corpses of children, women and men, the victims of secular democracy and Western technology, and who expressed their mourning with their heads held high, declaring the oneness of Allah. Their emotion overflowed while cursing Bashar and every ruler of the Muslim world, that the hellfire be their last abode. The tongue of their dire situation spoke through one of the heroes from Ghouta ash-Sham, shouting: "Allahu Akbar over oh tyrants of the Muslims, these dead are from the Ummah of Prophet Muhammad (saw) - the martyrs of Islam! Allahu Akbar over your silence...Where are the Muslim armies?" Where is the Ummah and its support for the revolution of ash-Sham? When will you rise against the thrones of your executioners and mobilize your armies oh Muslims?

Oh Ummah of Islam, Oh People of Chivalry and Courage, Oh Protective Ones of your Deen and honor:

A coward is known by his actions that are just as despicable and sordid as him. This is the case with this criminal regime and its head, for which there is no treatment but beheading and the amputation of its extremities, according to the saying of Allah (swt):

إنَّمَا جَزَاء الَّذِينَ يُحَارِبُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِي الأَرْضِ فَسَادًا أَن يُقَتَّلُواْ أَوْ يُصَلَّبُواْ أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم مِّنْ خِلافٍ أَوْ يُنفَوْا مِنَ الأَرْضِ ذَلِكَ لَهُمْ خِزْيٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَلَهُمْ فِي الآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ

"Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment." [al-Maida: 33]

This arrogant coward Bashar, his father's son, Allah's curse is upon him and his father came with a conspiring international commission to detect the use of chemical weaponry, as if it were a committee of experts not to prevent the use of chemical weaponry, but to supervise its most effective use! The strike against the Damascus countryside is characterized by unprecedented strong and concentrated injuries; it has undoubtedly been carried out by an expert. Has international immorality, led by the head of Kufr, hypocrisy and systematic murder America, already reached such levels? These internationally prohibited weapons have struck hundreds of martyrs, mostly children frantically springing like slaughtered chicken from the severe pain and agony. Ya Allah, ya Allah, to the Ummah of Islam, until when will you keep watching? Until the rest of what was left from the people of ash-Sham be slaughtered? Until the hazards of Western chemical weaponry extends to the Muslims of the Gulf, the people of Egypt and Africa? Only then, those from the "safe" Ummah will become aware of the wolf that has eaten us in portions. Then they will say, "Had we only heard and followed and stood in the face of the tyrant united!"

Oh Muslim Armies, Stationed in your Barracks:

Curses will descend upon you if you do not mobilize and support the people of ash-Sham. A horrible wrath of Allah has befallen you, the possessors of strength and capability, oh sons of the Muslim Ummah. If you have only an atom of sense of responsibility and conviction that the Day of Judgment is coming, and still you do not move to aid us in the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate", our source of dignity and the protector of our security, then you will be belittled in this world and overtaken by torment in the Hereafter! So mobilize, such that your mobilization will rescue you from the punishment of your Lord and that you may attain honor ... Otherwise, be drenched in the anger of Allah, His Messenger, His angels and all the people.

((وَإِنِ اسْتَنْصَرُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ فَعَلَيْكُمُ النَّصْر))

"And if they seek help of you for the religion, then you must help." [Al-Anfal: 72]

We ache with pain over what happened recently, and before Eid al-Fitr and in the days of Eid al-Fitr, between some rebel factions in Syria of strife and contention in the area of Rigga. The disorder of these events are the loss of the souls of the factions and civilians... they are sad painful events which affect every seeing and knowing person. Especially the killing of the soul of the innocent believer, it was narrated by Ibn Majah from Abdullah Bin Umar May Allah (swt) be satisfied with them: I saw the Prophet (saw) doing Tawwaf around the Ka'bah saying: «مَا أَطْيَبَكِ وَأَطْيَبَ رِيحَكِ، مَا أَعْظَمَكِ وَأَعْظَمَ حُرْمَتَكِ، وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ، لَحُرْمَةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَعْظَمُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ حُرْمَةً مِنْكِ، مَالِهِ، وَدَمِهِ، وَأَنْ نَظُنَّ بِهِ إِلَّا خَيْرًا» "How sweet are you and how sweet is your scent. How great are you and how great is your sanctity. By the One who the soul of Mohammad is in His Hand, the sanctity of a believer is greater with Allah than your sanctity, his wealth and blood and only thinking good of him." You are about to destroy your deeds with this conflict and strife. You weakened your strength and strengthened your enemy. Could you wake up and reflect before you regret the time you cannot regret?

The one who wants good has to follow the path of good without being impure, and Allah the Almighty looks after the Righteous.

O you revolutionary Muslims of Al-Sham, O wise people of the battalions and brigades defending this revolution:

You are strong in your commitment to your Deen and in gathering people around you, and they embrace you. That will not happen if you turn your weapons against each other and kill citizens, safe and peaceful villagers. This will make your Lord angry and satisfy your enemy and please the enemies of the uprising in Sham. This way you will lose the embrace of the people; and thus you lose courage and [then] your strength would depart;  and confirming this, is the speech of the Almighty: ((وَلَا تَنَازَعُوا فَتَفْشَلُوا وَتَذْهَبَ رِيحُكُمْ)) "And do not dispute and [thus] lose courage and [then] your strength would depart" [Al Anfaal:46]

Therefore we call upon our fighting brothers who gave their lives for Allah and carried their weapons for His sake, to return to their right senses and let Allah and his Messenger judge between them. And to rectify the aim of their weapons and not to point them towards their brothers; but towards the enemy of Allah, the Almighty and his Prophet, and to remove the tyrannical killing regimes and replace it with the righteous rule of Islam. And to withdraw from the neighbourhoods and civilian facilities and to station themselves outside the city at its limits to defend the city and its families. Then they will feel the embracement of the people and the people will gather around them and work with them to establish the Righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" according to the method of the Prophet, and the Sham will be the cradle of Islam, and then you will be the new Ansar, in which you will attain the honour in Dunya and the good reward in the Hereafter by the will of Allah the Almighty.

((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُونُوا أَنْصَارَ اللَّهِ كَمَا قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ لِلْحَوَارِيِّينَ مَنْ أَنْصَارِي إِلَى اللَّهِ قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ نَحْنُ أَنْصَارُ اللَّهِ)) "O you who have believed, be supporters of Allah, as when Jesus, the son of Mary, said to the disciples, "Who are my supporters for Allah?" The disciples said, "We are supporters of Allah." [Al-Saaf: 14]