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04/27/02 at 05:20:46 |
[slm] ------------------------------------------------------ IN THE NAME OF ALLAH ------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>>>>>> I N N O V A T I V E M I N D S <<<<<<<<<< NEWSLETTER 26 April 2002 http://www.inminds.com ------------------------------------------------------ ZIONIST TERRORISM IN CYBERSPACE Assalaamu Alaikum When we chose the Day of Quds last Ramadhan to launch our Boycott Israel Campaign, we never envisaged the degree of support it would secure, alhamdullah, from both Muslims and non-Muslims alike in such a short period of time. We have received thousands of emails of support from all around the world. Perhaps the most memorable was a message we received on 3rd of April, from Amjad. His message was simple : "I like to thank you by my name and by all Arabs in Palestine because of your position against Israel. Thank You." For country, he entered "Nabulas, Palestine". A quick look up of the IP address confirmed he was writing from an internet cafe in Nabulas. A few hours after we received the email a news alert revealed that more than 100 israeli tanks had just entered Nabulus. The slaughter had begun. We never received a reply to our message of solidarity to Amjad: "Know that you are not alone, that the whole world is behind your struggle. You are the pride of Muslims everywhere. We get our strength and inspiration from seeing your resistance to this brutal occupation. Know also that this occupation will end, victory will be yours. Allah tells us in the Holy Quran 3:160 that if Allah assist you, then there is none that can overcome you. We saw the enemy humiliated and defeated at the hands of Hizbullah, and inshallah very soon it will be your turn to deliver their defeat..." Requests have poured in from people asking permission to duplicate our boycott leaflet in the thousands for distributing them at Mosques, Universities and demonstrations. Our sites bandwidth usage has gone through the ceiling. For just last week, the logs indicate a record 4.56 million hits with 22.6 Gb of data being downloaded from our site - all this in a single week! The popularity is also reflected in search engine positioning for our site. Looking at the logs to see how people had found our site (referral) we were quiet suprised: One person had typed "highstreet store websites" in freeserve search engine and it had returned our "Boycott Marks & Spencers" page as fourth on the list of most relevant, which he/she then selected! Another person typed "Boss men s underwear" in the french search engine Recherche and it returned our "Boycott Delta Galil" page as first on the list. Similarly someone visited our site ("Boycott Sara Lee" page) after searching for "kiwi athletic shoe care" in Google (Brazil). All this popularity is not a reflection on our site or in anything that we have done, but rather the love of Al Quds that is at the heart of every Muslim, and the desire to see justice and an end to oppression in Palestine that resonates in the hearts of every moral being on this planet. Unfortunately not everyone is moral. As soon as we launched the campaign we became the target of the zionists thugs. It started with a campaign of hate mails and virus attacks. Then they threatened our hosting company, demanding they pull our site stating it was anti-Semitic. After submitting our site to netwatch, a UK organization which vets websites for inappropriate or illegal content, and receiving a clear sign that there is nothing illegal or racist on our website, our hosts endured the continued hate mails. We then started receiving hate telephone calls and the police were called in when a mother was threatened over the telephone with: "I know this is your address and that you are alone at home with a child..". Finally on Monday 22 April, around 2:30pm our website was closed down, our right to express our view was trampled on - we were silenced. Our host company explained that they had received threats and were tipped off by "a reliable source in the industry" against an imminent attack on their servers. They reasoned that if their servers were attacked they stood a good chance of going out of business overnight. They have 25 employees to support as well as their other clients websites to protect. They said that the decision to pull our site was not an easy one for them as they believe in the ethos of free speech on the internet. They explained that even their bandwidth provider had been threatened and that they had to send a formal email to them confirming that our site was no longer available. Currently we are still off-line, but inshallah within the next few days we should be operational once again. Our message to the zionist thugs out there is that your tactics of terror will not succeed either in Palestine or in cyberspace. If our site is closed down again, we will simply re-open else where with added vigour. We will not submit to your oppression, to do so would be to deny our faith and our belief in Allah. Wassalam Innovative Minds |
04/27/02 at 05:21:37 |
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