CAIR DECLARES 2006 'YEAR OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD'

CAIR DECLARES 2006 'YEAR OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD' Year-long educational effort prompted by Danish cartoon controversy

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/14/06) - Alhamdulillah (praise be to God), CAIR today called on Muslims to support a major educational effort, called "Explore the Life of Muhammad ," as a positive response to the worldwide controversy over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The year-long initiative will begin by offering people of all faiths a free book or DVD about the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad. CAIR's campaign will also feature grass-roots educational activities in Muslim communities throughout North America. (The campaign was announced at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and at CAIR's affiliated offices nationwide and in Canada by CAIR-CAN, an independent sister organization.)

Visitors to CAIR's campaign website, www.cair.com/Muhammad , will be able to choose either a DVD of the PBS documentary "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" or the book "Muhammad" by Yahiya Emerick. The website will also feature a 13-minute online clip from the DVD and excerpts from the book. (NOTE: Requests for free materials will initially be limited to the United States and Canada, but the campaign is designed to expand to Europe through cooperation with local Muslim communities.) Along with the DVD and the book, CAIR's website will also offer basic information about the Prophet Muhammad and a database of his sayings (hadith).

In the campaign, CAIR will offer materials to help local Muslim communities hold public screenings of the DVD, mosque open houses, panel discussions, essay contests, interfaith events, and other educational grass-roots activities focused on the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad. CAIR will also coordinate a speaker's bureau of its staff, board members and volunteers nationwide.

CAIR is suggesting that communities hold the first educational outreach activities on A "National Open House Day" February 24 at mosques and Islamic centers in the U.S. and Canada. A calendar of local activities will be available on CAIR's website. (Send notification of local events to: events@cair.com )

On Thursday, February 16, CAIR will host an afternoon forum at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to discuss the controversy over the caricatures

"CAIR's educational initiative is designed to bring people of all faiths together to learn more about the Prophet Muhammad and to use mutual understanding as a counterweight to the tensions created by the cartoon controversy," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "By declaring 2006 a year of learning about the Prophet Muhammad, we send a message to all people that there are positive and pro-active ways to challenge Islamophobia and anti-Muslim stereotypes," said Awad. Awad noted that CAIR officials met with a number of Washington-based diplomats to discuss Muslim concerns about the cartoons.

Following similar international protests over claims that American personnel had desecrated the Quran at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray, CAIR launched an "Explore the Quran " campaign offering free copies of the holy text to Americans of all faiths. To date, more than 27,000 Qurans have been requested through that campaign.

A recently-concluded CAIR initiative, called "Explore Islamic Culture and Civilization," placed educational materials about Islam and Muslims in more than 8,000 public libraries throughout the United States.

From the AL-Queda training manual-WHO OUR ENEMY IS AND WHAT THEY ARE UP TO
UK/BM-24 TRANSLATION
FOURTH LESSON
Organization MILITARY BASES
"APARTMENTS PLACES" -HIDING

Definition of Bases:

* These are apartments, hiding places, command centers, etc. in
which secret operations are executed against the enemy.

These bases may be in cities, and are [then] called homes or
apartments. They may be in mountainous, harsh terrain far from
the enemy, and are [then] called hiding places or bases.

During the initial stages, the Military Organization usually
uses apartments in cities as places for launching assigned
missions, such as collecting information, observing members of
the ruling regime, etc.

Hiding places and bases in mountains and harsh terrain are used
at later stages, from which Jihad [holy war] groups are
dispatched to execute assassination operations of enemy
individuals, bomb their centers, and capture their weapons.

In some Arab countries such as Egypt, where there are no mountains
or harsh terrain, all stages of Jihad work would take place in
cities. The opposite was true in Afghanistan, where initially
Jihad work was in the cities, then the warriors shifted to
mountains and harsh terrain. There, they started battling the
Communists.

Security Precautions Related to Apartments:

1. Choosing the apartment carefully as far as the location,
the size for the work necessary (meetings,storage, arms,
fugitives, work preparation).

2 . It is preferable to rent apartments on the ground floor to
facilitate escape and digging of trenches.

3 . Preparing secret locations in the apartment for securing
documents, records, arms, and other important items.

4 . Preparing ways of vacating the apartment in case of a
surprise attack (stands,wooden ladders).

UK/BM-26 TRANSLATION
5. Under no circumstances should any one know about the
apartment except those who use it.

6. Providing the necessary cover for the people who frequent
the apartment (students,workers, employees, etc.)

7. Avoiding seclusion and isolation from the population and
refraining from going to the apartment at suspicious times.

8. It is preferable to rent these apartments using false
names, appropriate cover, and non-Moslem appearance.

9. A single brother should not rent more than one apartment in
the same area, from the same agent, or using the same
rental office.

10. Care should be exercised not to rent apartments that are
known to the security apparatus [such as] those used for
immoral or prior Jihad activities.

11. Avoiding police stations and government buildings.
Apartments should not be rented near those places.

12. When renting these apartments, one should avoid isolated or
deserted locations so the enemy would not be able to catch
those living there easily.

13. It is preferable to rent apartments in newly developed
areas where people do not know one another. Usually, in
older quarters people know one another and strangers are
easily identified, especially since these quarters have
many informers.

14. Ensuring that there is has been no surveillance prior to
the members entering the apartment.

15. Agreement among those living in the apartment on special
ways of knocking on the door and special signs prior to
entry into the building's main gate to indicate to those
who wish to enter that the place is safe and not being
monitored. Such signs include hanging out a towel, opening
a curtain, placing a cushion in a special way, etc.

UK/BM-27 TRANSLATION
16. If there is a telephone in the apartment, calls should be
answered in an agreed-upon manner among those who use the
apartment. That would prevent mistakes that would,
otherwise, lead to revealing the names and nature of the
occupants.

17. For apartments, replacing the locks and keys with new ones.
As for the other entities (camps,shops, mosques),
appropriate security precautions should be taken depending
on the entity's importance and role in the work.

18. Apartments used for undercover work should not be visible
from higher apartments in order not to expose the nature of
the work.

19. In a newer apartment, avoid talking loud because
prefabricated ceilings and walls [used in the apartments]
do not have the same thickness as those in old ones.

20. It is necessary to have at hand documents supporting the
undercover [member]. In the case of a physician, there
should be an actual medical diploma, membership in the
[medical] union, the government permit, and the rest of the
routine procedures known in that country.

21. The cover should blend well [with the environment]. For
example, selecting a doctor's clinic in an area where there
are clinics, or in a location suitable for it.

22. The cover of those who frequent the location should match
the cover of that location. For example, a common laborer
should not enter a fancy hotel because that would be
suspicious and draw attention.

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