Western Civilised Torture

By CoolnessofHind

“One of the most atrocious violations against human dignity is the act of torture, the result of which destroy the dignity and impairs the capability of victims to continue their lives and their activities.”[1]

If it is argued that Muslims have monopoly on suicide bombing, then without a doubt the “Civilised” West in the present era has made its claim to fame through torturing. The West cannot even legitimately criticise Muslims for suicide-bombing as the argument that is often used – killing innocent civilians – equally applies to the purveyors of democracy and human rights.  The critics conveniently forget to look in their own backyard when reports about 39 out 44 drone attacks targeting civilians surface.  The only difference between suicide attacks and drone attacks is that of proximity and bravery.  The US drones kill innocent civilians from the skies, the suicide-bombers are on the ground giving their lives for a cause they deem legitimate.  The allegation of torture however, is something states such as America and Britain are increasingly unable to refute.

The “Progressive” Regression of the West

Such is the nature of godless nations – they regress at the whimsical desires of man.  When voices from thinkers such Montesquieu and Voltaire in Europe came to the forth against the use of torture to extract confession the subsequent abolition of torture was received as the dawn of “enlightened conscious”.[2] Today, the great West has CIA torture cells in Europe with European ministers being complicit to crimes against humanity as they were fully aware of the existence of such hell-holes in which 70 year olds were being beaten into pulp.

The Big Trial for Dr Aafia Has Begun…

Dr Sumayya

The trial of Dr Aafia Siddiqui began yesterday on the 19^th of January 2010.  As so called, ‘witness’ accounts are being heard, Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s fate will be decided over a two week period in the Manhattan courtroom.  Please make dua for our sister in distress, and all other brothers and sisters that have vanished under the banner of the ‘War on Terror’.

The trial can be followed on:

CagePrisoners.com, and Ibrahimsajidmalick.com.



The Failed US Disposal Order: Dr Aafia Siddiqui (Part 1 of 3)

By Dr Sumayya

WHO IS DR AAFIA SIDDIQUI?

Today, in the times of democracy, human rights – specifically women’s rights – and freedom of speech, the pleas of Aafia Siddiqui go unheard as she stands trial in New York, in one of the most controversial, muddled, and confusing cases of the century.

So what events have landed Dr Aafia into American captivity?

Dr Aafia Siddiqui was born in Karachi, 37 years ago into a middle-class family.  She achieved highly academically securing a place at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, only to go on further to Brandeis University, graduating with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience.  Her father was a UK trained medical doctor, and her mother is a housewife.  She is one of three siblings, who also shared outstanding academic achievements – her brother being an Architect married to a Paediatrician, and her sister – a Harvard-educated Neurologist.

She married a Karachi doctor, Muhammad Amjad Khan in 1995 and started a new life in Boston.  After a couple of years of their marriage, Aafia had one son, Ahmed Siddiqui and a daughter, Mariam Siddiqui.