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Unlike Sunni and Shia laws that condemn any apostate to death for rejecting Islam, the Quran allows for absolute Freedom of Faith (2:256, 10:99; 18:29).
Unlike the popular misbelief that Islam allows raids and attacks on other non-Mulsim entities in the name of Holy War, we believe in the Quran that states that war is justified only in the case of self-defense, not in offense.
Unlike in popular Sunni and Shiia practice where polygamy is allowed freely and wrongly misused, we believe that polygamy was made permissible by the Quran only under certain circumstances, namely, marrying mothers of the orphans of the men who had died during the war (4:3). This was mainly inserted in the Quran to solve the problem of all the women who were left widows when there husbands did not return from battle. Otherwise, Monogamy is therefore the main marital status permitted by the Quran.
Unlike accepted Sharia practice that rules that any thief should be punished by having his/her hand cut-off, we believe that as in the Quran, thieves must not have their hands cut-off but should rather be made to work in order to return what they have stolen. There should not be one absolute ruling that decides the punishment for a thief for there are many conditions that might differ the ruling from one case to the other. The cutting-off of hands was identified in the Quran as the utmost possible punishment for theft, not as the sole and only punishment for every act of theft.
Unlike common belief, adultery is not punished by being killed or stoned (24:2). Its maximum punishment, for both man and woman, is a hundred lashes and that requires that there be 4 witnesses. In this same regard, any witness that falsely accuses another person of adultery is punished by 80 lashes. And above all this, the Quran still allows for forgiveness and mercy in some cases of adultery.
Unlike Sunni and Shia practices that have included many superstitious and non Islamic rituals within the requirements of the Pilgrimage, we believe that the Pilgrimage was made to cononorate the sense of togetherness and unity amongst Muslims and does not entail any specific acts or rituals (i.e stoning the devil or the touching of the black stone).
Unlike Sunni belief that forbids silk and gold to be worn on men and deem music, statues, dogs unlawful, we believe that in Islam, music, statues, gold and silk are lawful (7:32–33, 16:116).
Unlike Sunni and Shia rulings that have allowed for the nurture of dictatorships and monarchs that have abolished any form of democracy, we believe that according to the Islamic teachings, government should be based on consultation and on the freedom of speech.
Unlike Sunni and Shia teachings that allow for abrogation of verses of the Quran whereby some verses can erase or replace any of the older verses, we believe that the Quran in its entirety is perfect and free of any contradictions. Any verse is included there for a reason and serves its own unique purpose.

This list is by no mean exhaustive, we are simply trying to clarify certain points of our belief system to avoid being categorized or stereotyped by the numerous of the false pretexts that surround Islam today. We believe in Islam’s coherent and flawless teachings, and though they might have been misinterpreted by some of Islam’s followers, this should by no means reflect the nature of Islam itself.

Dec

“Muslim!” Now Available In Insult Form

By Stefan 3 Comments

Categories: Islam, Islamophobia, Religion and Terrorism

Published on Jewcy.com (http://www.jewcy.com)

By Ali Eteraz

“Muslim!” is quickly becoming one of the worse insults to call someone.

When a Presidential candidate—Barack Obama—is so much as (falsely) rumored [1] to be Muslim, it is considered a smear. Mr. Obama, a Christian, and the son of an atheist and a Christian, has to keep five signed letters from Christian clergy in his office, just in case.

Even a Presidential candidate who comes from a marginalized religious background— Mitt Romney—cannot accept the idea [2] of a Muslim in the cabinet.

When a Muslim gets elected to Congress—Keith Ellison [3]—he is asked to prove his loyalty to the United States. Then, people become agitated when some shock-jock tells them that Ellison was planning on giving allegiance to the Quran, when in fact, a Congressman’s preferred holy book is just used for photo-op purposes after the swearing in on the US Constitution.

According to a survey cited by [4] the Washington Post, conducted by the Pew Center for the People and the Press [5], 45 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate for any office who is Muslim. Compare this with the 25 percent who said the same about a Mormon candidate and 16 percent who said the same for an Evangelical Christian.

In a 2004 survey [6] by Cornell university, almost half of the national respondents favored curtailing the civil liberties of Muslims. An astonishing 40 percent of Republicans wanted American Muslims to register their whereabouts (24 percent of Democrats).

Average Muslims are routinely asked to condemn terrorism (as if it was their family member that committed 9/11). Yet, a simple Google search reveals that plenty of Muslims have condemned terrorism. The first hit [7] for the query “Muslims condemn terrorism” as well as the query “Muslims do not condemn terrorism” both produce a list with hundreds of Muslim condemnations. It doesn’t get simpler than that.

Every day numerous Americans pretend as if the world is devoid of common, decent Muslims. Just as recently as Friday the New York Times published [8] an op-ed article entitled “Islam’s Silent Moderates” which wonders why Muslims did not speak out against the rape tragedy in Saudi Arabia, the teddy bear fiasco in Sudan, or the persecution of feminist writer Taslima Nasreen in India. Yet, four days prior to the publication of the article, a Muslim writing at a reputable Left magazine condemned the injustice in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and India (among many others), calling his unjust co-religionists “dimwits.” [9] Yet, according to the New York Times op-ed, this Muslim doesn’t exist.

There are some Americans who recognize the demonization for what it is, and how it is comparable to previous instances of American demonization. In an email to me, a very prominent American blogger writes: “We [gays] always used to have to condemn every pedophile, as if we were in charge, and as if we were somehow pedophiles. Same line of attack. I’ve often made this point that the attacks on Muslims and gays are very very similar.”

There is a stubborn resistance among many Americans to the idea that Muslims are a multifarious and diverse group of 1.2 billion humans, living in every nation and culture of the world.

All Muslims do not act the same. Today in Canada one Muslim organization is suing a magazine for publishing what it believes is Islamophobic material, while another Muslim organization is supporting the magazine’s right [10] to publish the offending material. This is just one example of a very self-evident point. To give more examples would simply insult mine and the reader’s intelligence. Yet, perhaps such mutual insults are necessary when some of the world’s most celebrated novelists publicly exclaim [11] that “there is no individual” in Islam.

Muslims are well aware that their co-religionists are being unjust towards women, are using the name of Islam to chase political power, have killed people in the name of Islam. But the fact is: it has been Muslims who have been at the forefront of resisting these injustices, and it will always be that way, so the rest of us can either get to know these Muslims or stop pretending like we know what we are talking about.

Long before 2001 when Islamic reformation became in vogue, Muslims whose teachers were executed and who had to go into exile, were writing books about it [12].

Long before America cared about the rights of women in the Muslim world, Muslim women were launching anti-honor killing jihads [13].

One of the most far reaching attacks against Islamically sanctioned forced marriages has been a film from Pakistan [14], not a vitriolic screed written in a high-end magazine in London.

Whenever there is progress in the Muslim world, it is because of something Muslims themselves accomplish. After witnessing the insane amount of Shia-Sunni killing in Iraq, it was Muslims who were able to get together and reach an accord [15] to stymie the violence. We should not forget that the crushing blow against Soviet Union did not come from the West, it came from inside [16] the Soviet Union, and from behind [17] the Iron Curtain. Even a cursory indulgence [18] in the state of Islamic reform will reveal that the same is occurring in the Muslim world today.

Putting aside what Muslims outside of America are doing, it bears asking why American Muslims are so reviled given that they have been almost model citizens.

An April 2002 survey [19] by Cornell University showed that 26 percent of American Muslim households earn more than $100,000. An astonishing 66 percent of American Muslim households earn more than $50,000. Given that American Muslims number between 3 to 7 million in this country, that is a fair deal of taxes contributed to this country.

Further, Zogby International found [20] that while only 8.6 percent of Americans have advanced degrees, that number is 32 percent for American Muslims.

A free clinic serving underserved areas run by American-Muslims in Los Angeles was recently recognized by Congress [21]. One of my good friends runs another similar clinic in Las Vegas.

Average Americans have to stop and ask ourselves how we allowed “Muslim” to become such an insult and what to do about it. Here are some suggestions:

Make a distinction between a “Muslim” and an “American-Muslim.” The former should refer to people of the Islamic faith around the world. The latter should refer to Muslims in the United States. The two words are not interchangeable.
Consider that American Muslim organizations that purport to speak for American Muslims do not in fact uniformly do so. American Muslims organize in many ways beyond those of affiliation with national organizations.
Consider that Black and Latino Muslims in America are increasingly one of the larger subset of American Muslims. This means that nearly 1/3rd of American Muslims do not, in appearance or language, conform to the usual stereotypes. Of the seven “Best Blogs” nominated this year in an Islamic blog award [22], two are by caucasian-muslims, three by immigrant-muslims, one by a black-muslim, and one by a latino-muslim. The award has been won by a Latina-Muslim woman for two years running.
Realize that while most Arabs are Muslims, not all Arabs are Muslim (many are Christian). Further, while some Muslims are Arabs, most Muslims are not Arab. Globally, only 18% of Muslims are Arab.
It also might be advisable to make a distinction between a Muslim and an Islamist. A Muslim is someone who adheres to Islam. An Islamist is someone who wants to live under an Islamic theocracy. Most Muslims that live in the West have no interest in Islamism. In fact, most of them came here only to escape theocracies and tyrannies.

Finally, it is worth considering that for Americans to make collective demands on Muslims groups should be deemed completely beyond the pale. If we as a society are going to make collective demands on a group, then we are implying that collective punishment is appropriate as well. It might be worth remembering that the rationale Bin Laden used justify his attacks against innocent American civilians was based on the idea that all Americans are collectively responsible for their country’s policies.

Source URL: http://www.jewcy.com/cabal/muslim_now_available_insult_form

Links:
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/did-you-know-that-senator_b_74710.html
[2] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7059.html
[3] http://www.alternet.org/rights/69575/
[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112802757_pf.html
[5] http://people-press.org/reports/
[6] http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec04/Muslim.Poll.bpf.html
[7] http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php
[8] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/opinion/07ali.html
[9] http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=14424
[10] http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/their_own_worst_enemies.html
[11] http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2224136,00.html
[12] http://www.amazon.com/Toward-Islamic-Reformation-International-Contemporary/dp/0815627068
[13] http://ecumene.org/INRFVVP/vision.htm
[14] http://eteraz.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/little-movie-defending-art-and-music-making-big-splash-in-pakistan/
[15] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-eteraz/dissent-is-now-ok-but-on_b_44824.html
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel
[18] http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/10/muslim_secularism_and_its_allies.html
[19] http://www.allied-media.com/AM/
[20] http://www.allied-media.com/AM/
[21] http://www.pluralism.org/news/article.php?id=13082
[22] http://www.brasscrescent.org/

Dec

CBC Interview with ‘Faith Without Fear’ Filmmaker

By Stefan 6 Comments

Categories: Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion and Terrorism

CBC interview with Irshad Manji on the topic of faith, organized religion and Islam. Fair warning, Irshad Manji is not an orthodox voice on the topic of religion.

Dec

Zeitgeist, the Movie Part II

By Stefan 4 Comments

Categories: 9-11, Al Qaeda, Bush, CIA, Conspiracy, Documentary, History, Iraq, Islamophobia, Politics, Terrorism and Video

Zeitgeist, the Movie is a 2007 non-profit web film produced by Peter Joseph that characterizes American culture in light of myth of god, country, and prosperity. The film is divided into an overture and three parts – Part I: “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, Part II: “All The World’s A Stage”, and Part III: “Don’t Mind The Men Behind The Curtain” – and discusses topics that include respectively Christianity, the attacks of 9/11, and the Federal Reserve Bank. A remastered version was presented as a global premiere on November 10, 2007 at the 4th Annual Artivist Film Festival & Artivist Awards.

Since its free online release via Google Video in the spring of 2007, the film has been viewed over 10 million times.

Part II: All The World’s a Stage Part II asserts that the United States was warned about the impending September 11, 2001 attacks, that NORAD was purposely confused through wargames to allow the planes to reach their targets, and that the World Trade Center buildings underwent a controlled demolition. Additionally, the film argues that the named hijackers are still alive, that Hani Hanjour could not have flown Flight 77 into the Pentagon, that the Bush Administration covered up the truth in the 9/11 Commission Report, and that the mainstream media has failed to ask important questions about the official account.

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Dec

God vs. Science

By Submitter 7 Comments

Categories: Bible, Christianity, Islam, jesus, Religion, Satan, Terrorism and Uncategorized

A science professor begins his school year with a lecture to the students, “Let me explain the problem science has with religion.” The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.“You’re a Christian, aren’t you, son?”

“Yes sir,” the student says.

“So you believe in God?”

“Absolutely.”

“Is God good?”

“Sure! God’s good.”

“Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?”

“Yes.”

“Are you good or evil?”

“The Bible says I’m evil.”

The professor grins knowingly. “Aha! The Bible!” He considers for a moment. “Here’s one for you. Let’s say there’s a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?”

“Yes sir, I would.”

“So you’re good…!”

“I wouldn’t say that.”

“But why not say that? You’d help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn’t.”

The student does not answer, so the professor continues. “He doesn’t, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?”

The student remains silent.

“No, you can’t, can you?” the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.

“Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?”

“Er…yes,” the student says.

“Is Satan good?”

The student doesn’t hesitate on this one. “No.”

“Then where does Satan come from?”

The student falters. “From God”

“That’s right. God made Satan, didn’t he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Evil’s everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything, correct?”

“Yes.”

“So who created evil?” The professor continued, “If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil.”

Again, the student has no answer. “Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?”

The student squirms on his feet. “Yes.”

“So who created them?”

The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. “Who created them?” There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized. “Tell me,” he continues onto another student. “Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?”

The student’s voice betrays him and cracks. “Yes, professor, I do.”

The old man stops pacing. “Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?”

“No sir. I’ve never seen Him.”

“Then tell us if you’ve ever heard your Jesus?”

“No, sir, I have not.”

“Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?”

“No, sir, I’m afraid I haven’t.”

“Yet you still believe in him?”

“Yes.”

“According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?”

“Nothing,” the student replies. “I only have my faith.”

“Yes, faith,” the professor repeats. “And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.”

The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of His own. “Professor, is there such thing as heat?”

“Yes,” the professor replies. “There’s heat.”

“And is there such a thing as cold?”

“Yes, son, there’s cold too.”

“No sir, there isn’t.”

The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain. “You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don’t have anything called ‘cold’. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees.”

“Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.”

Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer.

“What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?”

“Yes,” the professor replies without hesitation. “What is night if it isn’t darkness?”

“You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it’s called darkness, isn’t it? That’s the meaning we use to define the word.”

“In reality, darkness isn’t. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?”

The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester. “So what point are you making, young man?”

“Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.”

The professor’s face cannot hide his surprise this time. “Flawed? Can you explain how?”

“You are working on the premise of duality,” the student explains. “You argue that there is life and then there’s death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can’t even explain a thought.”

“It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.”

“Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?”

“If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do.”

“Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?”

The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.

“Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?”

The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided.

“To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean.”

The student looks around the room. “Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor’s brain?” The class breaks out into laughter.

“Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor’s brain, felt the professor’s brain, touched or smelt the professor’s brain? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir.”

“So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?”

Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable.

Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. “I guess you’ll have to take them on faith.”

“Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,” the student continues. “Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?”

Now uncertain, the professor responds, “Of course, there is. We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.”

To this the student replied, “Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.”

The professor sat down.

Dec

From Radical to Reformed Muslim

By Stefan 1 Comment

Categories: 19, Hadith, Islam, Quran, Religion, Sharia, Sunna and Terrorism

By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Edip Yuksel, a Kurdish-Turkish-American author and progressive activist who spent four years in Turkish prisons in the 1980’s for his political writings and activities promoting an Islamic revolution in Turkey. He experienced a paradigm change in 1986 transforming him from a Sunni Muslim leader to a reformed Muslim or rational monotheist.

Edip Yuksel has written more than twenty books and hundreds of articles on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish, and numerous articles and booklets in English. He is the founder of 19.org and the Islamic Reform organization. His personal site is yuksel.org. Continue reading ‘From Radical to Reformed Muslim’

Dec

How do the terrorists justify terror by citing Islam?

By Stefan 4 Comments

Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Politics, Rajm, Religion, Sharia, Sunna and Terrorism

Iqbal Latif – 10/3/2006

The Farewell Pilgrimage of the Prophet Muhammed was a significant historical event in the Muslims life. Although thousands of Muslims witnessed the Farewell (last) Sermon given by the Prophet Muhammed, the Hadiths books reported at least three versions of the same Sermon. For an event witnessed by over 10,000 people an accurate narration should have been available, but it has not. Continue reading ‘How do the terrorists justify terror by citing Islam?’

Dec

Understanding Qur’an

By Submitter 2 Comments

Categories: 9-11, Al Qaeda, Anti-Semitism, Article, Christianity, Hadith, History, Islam, Islamophobia, Limits, Palestine, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sharia, Terrorism and Wahhabi

Is there a hope to “Reform” Islam

An analysis of the real roots of Islamic terrorism and possible solutions

T. Hamid

It is evident that Islam has been linked to violence for almost all of its history.

Sadly, this is to a great extent true. From the beginning of the invasion of most of

Europe, North Africa and some parts of the East by early Muslims in order to

convert them to Islam. Continuously until the modern crisis of “Islamic Terrorism”

that shocked the world on Sep 11th, that ended the lives of many innocent Jews

in Israel, that ended the lives of many innocent Australians in Bali attack, that

caused the catastrophe of bombing the train in Spain, and which has tortured to

death many innocent Westerners who live in the Islamic world.

Many people in the West tried to correlate the recent violence observed in the

Islamic world to lack of education, poverty, and a feeling of oppression blamed

on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Unfortunately, the simple facts showed us clearly, and beyond doubt, that these

excuses are not the true causes of “Islamic terrorism”. Most of the leaders of

terrorism are highly educated people who range from Doctors, e.g. Alzawaheri

the second man and the real brain of Alqaida, lawyers, e.g. the first female

Palestinian terrorist, and University students, e.g. Mohammed Atta who was one

of the top organisers of Sep the 11th. In addition, most of the hijackers on Sep 11th were from Saudi Arabia, the richest

Islamic country. If the theory of poverty is correct, why then are the poor people

who live in Brazilia are not the ones who lead international terrorism?

Furthermore, Islamic Terrorism was minimal between the declaration of the state

of Israel in 1948, until the early 1970’s, when the Arabs were in a real war with

Israel.

If the Israeli/Palestinian conflict was the cause of terrorism, we would have found

terrorism booming between 1948 until the early 1970’s. On the contrary, it

dramatically increased in the late 1980s and until now when some Arabs states

have signed peace agreements with Israel.

This increase in terrorism directly correlates with the rise of Islamism in the late

1980s until now.

I have a Muslim/Arabic background, and I know how Muslims (including myself at

an early stage of my life) think, I clearly state that Muslims are using the excuse

of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict just to make the world hate Israel. It has nothing

to do with the current phenomenon of terrorism. Which was going to happen any

way, as a secondary phenomenon to expanding a violent version of Islam in later

years?

It is also difficult for any normal mind to comprehend that throwing concentrated

sulphuric acid on the face of young girls who do not wear the Islamic veil/scarf,

by the hands of the Islamic groups in Algeria, is related to the Israeli/Palestinian

conflict.

As one who was a member of one of the most fanatical groups in Islam, GI in

Egypt, and as a person who has resisted Islamic fundamentalism when I realized

its threat some 20 years ago, I feel that it is my obligation toward mankind to

declare that the origin of Islamic Terrorism is deeply rooted in the way Muslims

understand their religion. In other words, in Islamic teaching itself.

When you read the Quran, you will find many great verses that promote peace

and tolerance. But you will also find verses that can make you very violent and

intolerant toward Non Muslims.

Sadly, most Islamic scholars throughout the history of Islam, present it in a way

that promotes a very violent and intolerant attitude. And more sadly, the

oppressive religious system suppresses many attempts to understand Islam in

the light of the peaceful verses.

Not only that, but the majority of Muslims especially those in the Arab world, are

brought up in a manner that considers a peaceful understanding of the religion as

a sign of weakness rather than a sign of strength.

A violent understanding of Islam is based on the following fundamental beliefs

that are fixed in the mind of many, if not most, knowledgeable Muslims.

These are:

1- The concept of “Allnasech and Almansuch” .

2- The ignorance of the value of the word “the” .

3- Practicing Hadith of “Al-Bukhary” and other books while ignoring

unambiguous peaceful verses of the Quran.

4- Historical understanding of the verses rather than language-based

understanding.

5- Presenting only a special part of the verse to promote specific meaning

and ignoring the rest of the verse.

Let us now address the previous points separately and see if this violent way

of thinking could change.

1- The concept of “Allnasech and Almansuch”.

According to this concept and based on traditional Islamic teaching, certain

verses especially the later ones cancel the meaning of other earlier verses on a

similar subject.

Let us have a look at these two parts of the Quran to understand the above

concept.

Verse 1

“60:8 God forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for (your) Faith

nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing very kindly and justly with them: for

God loves those who are just. 60:9 God only forbids you, with regard to those

who fight you for (your) Faith, and drives you out of your homes, and supports

(others) in driving you out, from turning to them (for friendship and protection). It

is such as turn to them (in these circumstances), that do wrong.”

Verse 2

{9: 29} Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that

forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (Mohammed),

nor acknowledge the religion of Truth (Islam), (even if they are) of the People of

the Book (Christians and Jews), until they pay the Jizia (Humiliation Tax

according to traditional Islamic teaching and practice in history) with submission,

and feel themselves subdued. (Revelation Number 113).

Sadly, according to the concept of “Allnasech and Almansuch” traditional Islamic

teaching teaches that the “later” verse negated the “former” which obviously will

result in extremely violent understanding and practice.

This way of thinking (to cancel the meaning of the peaceful verses) is

based on the following verse in the Quran:

There are two ways to understand the above Arabic word as the origin of the

word “Nansakho”, is the verb “Yansakho” or its more powerful version

“Yastansikho”.

The first way of understanding the word ‘Nansakho” in the above verse, is to

abrogate (cancel the meaning) as in the following verse:

“22:52 Never did We send an apostle or a prophet before thee, but, when he

framed a desire, Satan threw some (vanity) into his desire: but Allah will cancel

(Yansach) anything (vain) that Satan throws in, and Allah will confirm (and

establish) His Signs: for Allah is full of Knowledge and Wisdom

The other way of understanding, the word “Nansakho” means (to write

and document something) as in the following verse:

“2:106 None of Our revelations do We

abrogate “Nansakho” or cause to be

forgotten, but We substitute something

better or similar: Knowestthou not that God

is able to do any thing?

“45:29 “This Our Record speaks about you with truth: For We were wont

to put on Record and write down (Nastansikho) all that ye did.”

The difference here is huge, as according to traditional teaching, the first verse is

canceled out. Thus ending in the violent verses canceling the meaning of the

peaceful ones, as those violent verses were proclaimed by the prophet

Mohammed at a later time.

On the other hand, if the word “Nansakho” is understood as ‘to write down anddocument’ the meaning of the verse could be that: If God has written of his

miracles or signs (Aia) in the books or did not write it down and consequently

people forget it, he usually comes with a better one.

As you can see, the interpretation which is based on pure Arabic language,

shows the real power of God in bringing new and better miracles and signs every

time which is compatible with the word ‘able to do anything” at the end of the

verse.

While understanding it as ‘cancellation’ of a meaning, it is not compatible at all

with the ability of God, as any one can cancel what he or she said.

n other words the concept of cancellation of the meaning is not compatible at all

with the end of the verse (see the black box above).

Imagine that, according to the concept of cancellation of the verses, most of the

peaceful verses in the Quran were considered “Mansuch’ or cancelled by the

violent ones and consequently it is not surprising to find the outcome of Islam is

almost always violent!!

2-The ignorance of the value of the word “the”

Many readers may wonder how these three letters can make such a

fundamental difference in the understanding of the Islamic religion.

It is as if some one told you give me a book, and then you can generalize the

meaning and apply it to any book. Whilst if he or she said to you “give me the

book’ then the whole meaning changes to a specific book that both you and the

speaker know.

To explain this point in the understanding of the Quran, please have a look on

the following verse:

“9:73 O Prophet! strive hard against the (Infidels) unbelievers and the Hypocrites,

and be very harsh against them.

Typical Islamic teaching generalizes the above verse to all Infidels. This

obviously will succeed into changing many followers of Islam into beasts.

The word “the” specifies the meaning to ONLY a certain item or group. Such

groups are defined by the following verse that specifies with whom the rough

treatment, violence, or fighting should be:

“2:190 Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not start attacking

others.

If the word “the” is considered in the process of understanding the Quran, many

the verses that promote violence against Non-believers (Infidels) will be specific

to ONLY those who start war on Muslims and can not be applied to any “Infidel”.

Can you see now how the word ‘the” can make such a difference!

3-Practicing the Hadith of Bukhary, and other books, whilst ignoring the

“unambiguous” verses of the Quran.

Hadith is considered by most Muslims as the “oral traditions” of Mohammed. No

one is considered to be a Muslim without following them, according to traditional

Islamic teaching. These started to be collected some 200 years after the death of

the prophet Mohammed by a man called Al-Bukhary, who was followed by many

others who also collected (as they claim) the oral traditions of Mohammed.

The best example to illustrate how following Al-Bukhary resulted in a catastrophe

in Islam. It is the hadith that justifies killing any one who converts from Islam to

another religion.

The Hadith is in a book called Sahih Albuchary and is considered by Al-Bukhary

as a correct Hadith or “ Hadith Sahaih”.

Let us have a look now at that Hadith, and compare it to what the Quran has

stated:

Hadith: “ It is not allowed for any Muslim to kill another Muslim except in the

following circumstances: if he committed murder, if he committed adultery, and if

he converted from the Islamic religion to another religion”

Look now at what the Quran states, to understand the difference:

18:29 Say, “The truth is from your Lord”: it is up to anybody to believe it or not to

believe it (convert or become Infidel)”

I think the difference is clear between the two approaches.

As the reader can see, applying that which is written in Al-Boukhary resulted in

justifying the threat of killing many innocent people such as Salman Rushdie (the

author of the book, Satanic Verses), and many innocent people who want to

have a different form of belief.

Whilst, to the contrary, the Quran gave full freedom for any person to believe in

what he or she wants.

The application of the Hadith mentioned above (called Hadith Almurtad or theconverter) has resulted in largely the domination of the violent version of Islam as

the Hadith, which was used to kill virtually any one who dares to understand

Islam in a peaceful manner.

4-Historical understanding of the verses rather than language- based one

(Jihad)

The exact meaning of the word “Jihad” is ‘to resist’. This could be to resist an

enemy who attacks you, or resist your desire to do evil.

Sadly, the word has been used throughout the history of Islam to attack those of

different religions.

The Arab invasion of Europe and many other parts of the world such as

Palestine, and North Africa are evidence of this. Since then, the word has

become linked to an attacking attitude, rather than its real meaning, which is ‘to

resist’.

It is like the word ‘gay” which typically means “happy”. Since its repeated use

describing homosexuals, it has come to refer to homosexuals rather than its

former meaning. The same has happened with the word ‘Jihad’ which is linked to

the violent attitude of most of current Islamic teaching. Whilst the original

language-based meaning (to resist), was forgotten by most Muslims, and is

virtually non-existent nowadays.

Muslims now have one of two choices. These are to understand the word in its

historical context which means that they are declaring war against Non-Muslims

all over the world, or to revert to the pure Arabic language-based understanding

of the words encouraging peace.

5-Presenting only a special part of the verse to promote specific meaning

and ignoring the rest of the verse

This point can be exemplified by the following verse that is used by many Islamic

organisations to recruit young people.

“9:36 and fight the Infidels all together”.

When Muslims read this verse, many of them especially the young ones, get very

motivated to practice the will of ‘Allah” and start thinking of attacking Non-

Muslims to satisfy the Creator and inherit the paradise.

What these fundamental Islamic groups are not showing to these young Muslims

is the rest of the verse, which is, “as they fight you all together.”

The whole verse is “and fight the Infidels all together as they fight you all

together” but the Islamic groups presents the first part only to support their violent

views. They hide the rest of the verse, as it will specify the fighting to ONLY

those who start war on Muslims.

As can be seen, the traditional way of understanding Islam has contributed to the

violence that has been committed by Muslims around the world.

It is so sad to see that so many people following such teachings, as those who

attempted reformation or tried to promote a peaceful way of understanding Islam

were prosecuted or killed.

tried to teach a peaceful understanding of the Islamic religion for more than 20

years. I have warned many people of the catastrophic consequences that will

happen from the expansion of such violent understandings.

Sadly the attempt was on a very small scale, and I failed because I was fighting

virtually by myself against the violent version of Islam that is supported by the

money of Saudi Arabia.

It is now the responsibility of Muslims to either accept the traditional teachings

which will encourage them declare war on all Non- Muslims, or to accept the

peaceful way of understanding their religion which can make them good human

beings.

I sincerely hope that they choose the second option!

Finally, I want also to say to all Muslims:

Do not resist the light …….. Do not love the darkness ………… Hate the violent

way of thinking, as it makes you appear as beasts ….. Your violent way of

thinking has resulted in the killing of many innocent people in the West ……. and

has resulted in killing many innocent children in Israel.

wish to see you one day demonstrating in your millions and saying to those

barbarous Islamic fanatics like Bin Laden, “Bin Laden …… you are the enemy of

humanity”.

Your “deafening silence” just shows that you support terrorism in your hearts,

and that you need to change.

I have been into Churches and Synagogues where they were praying for you and

for peace – and at the same time – your Muslim preachers in the Mosques are

saying loudly, “Oh Allah make their children Orphans, .. Oh Allah make their

wives widows, and even (most recently), Oh Allah make the uterus of the Infidels’

wives fibrotic”…………… If this is what you want your religion to be … do not

blame those who will say “shame on Allah, and shame on your religion”

If you mean God by the word “Allah”, then I assure you that the true God will

curse you forever for defaming his name.

Dec

Stop the bullets. Kill the gun.

By Stefan Leave a Comment

Categories: Terrorism

Choice FM targets Notting Hill Carnival with gun crime ad

by Darren Davidson Brand Republic 22-Aug-07, 08:40

LONDON – Choice FM is launching a hard-hitting TV and cinema campaign, featuring a bullet travelling through inanimate objects in slow motion, as part of its wider campaign against gun crime. Continue reading ‘Stop the bullets. Kill the gun.’

Dec

9/11: Press for Truth

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Categories: 9-11, 911, Al Qaeda, CIA, Conspiracy, Documentary and Terrorism

“We felt the country was at risk from terrorists and from incompetence…and maybe worse.”

— Lorie Van Auken, September 11th Widow

Out of the grieving thousands left behind on September 11th, a small group of activist families emerged to demand answers. In 9/11 Press For Truth, six of them (including three of the famous “Jersey Girls”) tell for the first time the powerful story of how they took on the powers in Washington—and won!—compelling an investigation, only to subsequently watch the 9/11 Commission fail in answering most of their questions.

The families eventually found an ally in Paul Thompson. Dissatisfied with the incomplete picture of September 11th presented in most news reports, Thompson became a citizen journalist of sorts. He stitched together thousands of rare overlooked news clips, buried stories, and government press conferences into a definitive Complete 9/11 Timeline (published by Harper Collins as The Terror Timeline). Press For Truth is adapted in part from his acclaimed work, which revealed to the families a very different picture of the road that led to the attacks and the resulting War on Terror, one that still today raises important and pressing questions.

Press For Truth premiered theatrically in September 2006 in New York City and the San Francisco Bay area. With the help of Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Theaters, it was rolled out for a limited release in over fifty cities across America as well as Canada, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Australia, and Japan.

The movie was immediately hailed by critics and enthusiastically embraced by a groundswell of concerned people worldwide who felt that the 9/11 Commission and the western news media had failed to account for many important issues. For these thousands, Press For Truth was the rational, skeptical, mainstream motion picture examination of the events of September 11th they had been eagerly awaiting.

On the fifth anniversary of the attacks, Press For Truth aired throughout the Middle East on the Al Jazeera television network. It was soon purchased by TV stations in Spain, Norway, Poland, and all of South America.

In February 2007, Press For Truth received it’s U.S. television debut on satellite channel LinkTV where it will be airing repeatedly throughout this year. The DVD is now available for rent at Netflix or Blockbuster.com and for purchase at Borders, Virgin Megastore, Sam Goody, Suncoast, Amazon.com, and many other outlets nationwide. Continue reading ‘9/11: Press for Truth’

Dec

My Take (on Irshad and ijtihad!)

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Categories: Article, Islam, Islamophobia, Politics, Quran, Religion and Terrorism

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Video: Irshad’s interview with young Pakistani journalist Imran Siddiqui

My Take

Imran Siddiqui

When I first heard about Irshad Manji, I said to myself: “this is one person I’d like to sit down and just have a conversation with”. I feel that she has every right to present her perspective – just like every other person on this planet. It was funny- as soon as I started to work on lining up an interview with Irshad, I faced a lot of criticism from a few friends and colleagues. Surprisingly, many of my critics were journalists. Many people asked why I wanted to talk to her. They passed judgments on her from top to bottom. They also emphasized that radicals will come after my life -just as they go after hers- simply because I wanted to understand her views. Continue reading ‘My Take (on Irshad and ijtihad!)’

Dec

THE NUMBER TWO ISLAM

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Quran, Religion, Sharia, Sunna and Terrorism

SHABBIR AHMED, M.D.

(AUGUST, 2003)

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

– Voltaire, 1694-1778

You cannot trust your judgment if your imagination is out of focus.

– Mark Twain, 1835-1910

I think, any distorted belief system throws our imagination out of focus. Consequently, our judgment and the resulting actions end up being wrong. While there is no room for clergy, priesthood or Mullahism in Deen-il-Islam, this vicious band emerged side-by-side when the Muslim rulers, although still called caliphs, became despotic monarchs. The Mullahs or “Imams” then converted Ad-Deen into Religion (Mazhab or the Number Two Islam) with a deplorable set of rituals, non-Quranic dogmas, beliefs, themes and fabrications of all kind. Continue reading ‘THE NUMBER TWO ISLAM’

Dec

أحمد صبحي منصور

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Categories: Article, Hadith, History, Islam, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sharia, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

د. أحمد صبحي منصور
Ahmed Mansour <mas3192003@yahoo.com

د. احمد صبحي منصور
( مفكر اسلامي مستقل )

size="5">البيانات الشخصية
size="5"> الاسم / احمد صبحي منصور محمد علي
تاريخ الميلاد / 1/3/1949 .
محل الميلاد / ابو حريز – كفر صقر – الشرقية – مصر .
الحالة الاجتماعية / متزوج ويعول .
العمل الحالي / باحث مستقل في الدراسات الاسلامية .

المؤهلات العلمية :
size="5"> 1- الشهادة الاعدادية الازهرية سنة 1964 الترتيب : الثاني علي مستوي الجمهورية .
2- الثانوية العامة نظام الثلاث سنوات خارجي سنة 1976 – القسم الادبي، اثناء الدراسة في التعليم الثانوي الازهري.
3- الثانوية الازهرية : ادبي – سنة 1969 الترتيب : الرابع علي الجمهورية .
4- الاول علي قسم التاريخ والحضارة الاسلامية في السنوات الاربع بكلية اللغة العربية – جامعة الازهر ( 1969 : 1973 ).
5- الاجازة العلمية ( الليسانس) قسم التاريخ بجامعة الازهر سنة 1973 بتقدير عام جيد جدا مع مرتبة الشرف .
6- الماجيستير في التاريخ الاسلامي والحضارة الاسلامية 1975 ( جيد جدا )
7- الدكتوراة : شعبة التاريخ والحضارة – بمرتبة الشرف الاولي ( 1981 ) جامعة الازهر – كلية اللغة العربية – قسم التاريخ . في التاريخ الاسلامي والحضارة.
8- كان قد قدم رسالته للمناقشة في مارس 1977 ، فتعرض لاضطهاد داخل الجامعة الازهرية استمر ثلاث سنوات، حتى اضطروه الى حذف ثلثى الرسالة، وقد كانت حول اثر التصوف في مصر العصر المملوكي، أي اثره دينيا واخلاقيا واجتماعيا وسياسيا وعلميا ومعماريا واقتصاديا.. الخ. وبسبب اظهار الرسالة لاثار التصوف السيئة في هذه النواحي ، فقد ثار الشيوخ علي الباحث لكي يرغموه على تعديل كتابته لتكون دفاعا وتبريرا عن اولياء الصوفية الذين يقدسهم شيوخ الازهر، ورفض الباحث، واستمرت معاناته معهم ثلاث سنوات ممنوعا من مناقشة رسالته، الي ان وصلوا الى حل وسط وهو حذف اثر التصوف في الحياة الدينية والسلوكيات الاخلاقية، وبعد حذف ثلثي الرسالة حصل على الدكتوراه بمرتبة الشرف الاولى.

التدرج الوظيفي : ( 1972 – 1987 )
size="5"> 1- مدرس بالتعليم الازهري من 1 /3/1972 . اثناء الدراسة بالكلية .
2- معيد بقسم التاريخ بكلية اللغة العربية – جامعة الازهر – من 11/12/1973.
3- مدرس مساعد بنفس القسم من 6/ 12/ 1975 .
4- مدرس بنفس القسم من 8/ 4/ 1981 حتى انتهاء الخدمة في 14 / 3/ 1987 بسبب الخلاف الفكري مع الفكر السائد في جامعة الازهر.
5- اذ ان الباحث بعد ان اظهر التناقض بين الاسلام و التصوف، بدأ يعرض الفكر السني و العقائد السنية على القران، ويظهر التناقض بينهما، وذلك في خمس مؤلفات كتبها جميعا اثناء العام الدراسي (1984-1985)، وقررها على الطلبة الذين يدرس لهم في الكليات الازهرية، فأصدرت الجامعة قرارا في 5/5/1985 بوقفه عن العمل و عن السفر وعن الترقية لاستاذ مساعد، حيث كانت تلك الكتب الخمس وما سبقها هي انتاجه العلمي الذي سيتقدم به للحصول على درجة استاذ مساعد، كما اصدروا قرارا باحالته للتحقيق لارهابه و الضغط عليه كي يرجع عن آرائه في تلك الكتب الخمس. ورفض الباحث فاحالوه الي مجلس التأديب في نفس العام 1985 متهما بادخال اشياء جديدة ليست في المنهج العلمي المقرر على الطلبة، وبانكاره للعصمة المطلقة للانبياء وانكاره شفاعة النبي محمد عليه السلام،وانكاره افضليته على الانبياء السابقين. وكان الباحث قد استشهد ب150 اية قرآنية على ان عصمة النبي بالوحي الذي يوجهه ويعاتبه، واستشهد ب150 اية قرآنية اخرى على ان النبي لا يشفع يوم القيامة، واستشهد بثلاثين اية قرآنية على انه لا يصح لنا ان نفضل النبي الخاتم علي الانبياء السابقين لان ذلك مرجعه لله تعالى وحده. وفي جلسات مجلس التأديب جاء الباحث بادلة اضافية تعزز موقفه، فما كان منهم الا ان جمدوا وضعه بجعله متهما دائما امام مجلس التأديب موقوفا عن العمل، فقدم لهم استقالته المسببة سنة1986 فرفضوها، فرفع عليهم دعوى في مجلس الدولة، فاضطروا الى اطلاق سراحه في مارس 1987. ولكنهم دبروا مؤامرة مع رفاقهم داخل مصر وخارجها للضغط على الحكومة المصرية، فاتهمت الباحث بانكار السنة، خصوصا بعد اصدار كتابه “المسلم العاصي”. فدخل السجن شهرين في نوفمبر وديسمبر. ولا يزال اضطهادهم قائما له حتى الان. ولدى الباحث كل الوثائق التي تؤكد ما سبق.

بيانات الخبرة في التدريس والعمل الجامعي (1987 – 1985 )
size="5"> 1- العمل بالتدريس في كليات جامعة الازهر في مجال التاريخ الاسلامي والحضارة الاسلامية 1977 1985ـ في كليات جامعة الازهر آلاتية :
كلية اللغة العربية بالقاهرة ، كلية اللغة العربية بالزقازيق – كلية التربية ، المواد الاسلامية في كليات الطب والاسنان والتجارة واللغات والترجمة ، كلية الدعوة بطنطا ، كلية الدعوة بالقاهرة ، حيث كان الباحث يقوم بوظيفة المدرس كاملة طوال السنوات الثلاث 1977 الي 1980 ، التي منعوه فيها من مناقشة رسالة الدكتوراه و حقه في الترقي من مدرس مساعد الي مدرس، وقد ادرك قسم التاريخ والحضارة الذي يعمل فيه الباحث مدرسا مساعدا وقتها مدى الاضطهاد الذي يقع على الباحث، مع تقدير القسم لنبوغه العلمي فاعطوه -وهو مدرس مساعد نفس مهام المدرس اثناء تلك السنوات الثلاث.
2- سكرتير قسم التاريخ والحضارة بكليات اللغة العربية ( 1982 – 1984 ) و المسئول عن ندوة القسم الاسبوعية .
خبرات اخري مختلفة في مجال العمل العام ( 1980 – )
1- سكرتير عام جماعة دعوة الحق الاسلامية ، وهي تسيطر علي عشرات المساجد في القاهرة والجيزة وطنطا والمنوفية والشرقية ودمياط .( 1980 – 1986 ) .
2- الخطيب والمحاضر الاول لجماعة دعوة الحق الاسلامية في نفس الفترة ( 1980 – 1986 ).
3- سكرتير و مدير تحرير مجلة الهدي النبوي التي تصدرها جماعة دعوة الحق ( 1985 – 1987 ).
4- القاء محاضرات وندوات في ولايات ( واشنطن ، اريزونا ، سان فرانسيسكو ) { يناير : اكتوبر 1988 }.
5- عضو مجلس امناء المنظمة المصرية لحقوق الانسان ، والمشرف علي امانة التثقيف والفكر فيها فيما بين ( 1994 – 1995 ) .
6- عضو مؤسس للجمعية المصرية للتنوير ( 1993- ) والامين العام لها فيما بين ( 1993-1998).
7- عضو مؤسس للحركة الشعبية لمواجهة الارهاب ، ومقرر لجنة الفكر ( 1994 – 1996 ) .
8- عضو ومستشار الجمعية الدولية لأبن خلدون ( Ibn Khaldoun Society ) ( 1996 – ) .
9- المنسق العام لدراسات المجتمع المدني والتحول الديمقراطي ، ومشروع التطرف والارهاب في مركز ابن خلدون ومستشار المركز في الشئون الاسلامية .
10- المستشار الديني لكثير من منظمات المجتمع المدني ، ومراكزه مثل المنظمة المصرية لحقوق الانسان، مركز القاهرة لحقوق الانسان ( 1990 – ) .
11- ادارة الندوات في مراكز مثل المنظمة المصرية لحقوق الانسان ، والجمعية المصرية للتنوير ( 1994 – ) .
12- حضور ندوات عربية ودولية في تونس واليمن وليبيا وانجلترا وامريكا ( 1987 – 2000 ) .
13- ادارة رواق ابن خلدون وهو ندوة اسبوعية استمرت بدون انقطاع من الثلاثاء 2/1/1996 حتى 20 / 6/ 2000 .

أهم المنشورات :
size="5"> ( أ ) ابحاث ومقالات في الصحف والمجلات المصرية والعربية :
اكثر من خمسمائة بحث ومقال من ( 1982 : 2001 )
في ( الاخبار والجمهورية ، الاهالي ، روزاليوسف ،العربي الناصري ، القاهرة ، ابداع ، مجلة التنوير ، مجلة المجتمع المدني ، جريدة الخليج ، ادب ونقد ، العالم اليوم ، سواسية ، حواء ، سطور ، رواق بن عربي ، الانسان والتطور ، حقوق الناس، الهدي النبوي ، الاهرام ، الاهرام ويكلي ، جريدة الخليج ، الوطن الكويتية ، الوطن المصرية ، الميدان ، الاحرار ) الخ .
(ب ) كتب عربية منشورة :
1 – السيد البدوي بين الحقيقة والخرافة سنة 1982
2 – البحث في مصادر التاريخ الديني سنة 1984
3- شخصية مصر بعد الفتح الاسلامي سنة 1984 .
4- التاريخ والمؤرخون : دراسة في تاريخ التأريخ : سنة 1984 .
5- التاريخ والمؤرخون : دراسة في المادة التاريخية : سنة 1984 .
6- اسس البحث التاريخى سنة 1984
7- غارات المغول والصليبيين سنة 1985
8- العالم الاسلامي بين عصر الراشدين وعصر الخلفاء العباسيين 1985
9- حركات انفصالية في التاريخ الاسلامي سنة 1985
10- دراسات في الحركة الفكرية في الحضارة الاسلامية سنة 1985
11- الانبياء في القرآن الكريم : دراسة تحليلية سنة 1985
ملحوظة :
حوكم المؤلف في جامعة الازهر 1985 : 1987 ثم تركها سنة 1987 بسبب المؤلفات الخمس الاخيرة .
12- المسلم العاصي :هل يخرج من النار ليدخل الجنة . سنة 1987 .
ملحوظة :
صودر هذا الكتاب ودخل المؤلف بسببه السجن شهرين سنة 1987
13- مصر في القرآن الكريم سنة 1990
14- حقائق الموت في القرآن الكريم سنة 1990
15- حد الردة : دراسة اصولية تاريخية سنة 1993 ، اعيدت طباعته سنة 2000 وترجم الي الانجليزية سنة 1998 .
16- عذاب القبر والثعبان الاقرع سنة 1995 ، اعيدت طباعته سنة 2000 .
17- حرية الرأي بين الاسلام والمسلمين سنة 1994
18- قضية الحسبة في الاسلام سنة 1995 ، ونشر ثلاث مرات في نفس العام .
19- مقدمة لكتاب جاك بيرك عن اعادة ترجمة القرآن سنة 1995 .
20- مقدمة ابن خلدون : دراسة اصولية تاريخية : سنة 1998 .
21- النسخ في القرآن معناه الكتابة و الاثبات وليس الحذف والالغاء سنة 2000
22- العقائد الدينية في مصر المملوكية بين الاسلام والتصوف سنة 2000

(جـ ) وهناك اكثر من اربعين مؤلفا غير منشور ، اهمها موسوعة التصوف المملوكي ، وموسوعة القرآن والفكر السني .
وكل هذه المؤلفات المنشورة وغير المنشورة تدور في اطار المشروع الفكري للمؤلف الذي يهدف الي الاحتكام للقرآن الكريم في تراث المسلمين وعقائدهم لتبرئة الاسلام من تهم التطرف والارهاب .

د. احمد صبحي منصور
يونية 2001
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لقراءة مقالات قديمة للدكتور احمد انقر هنا

* الاسناد في الحديث
* رد على شيخ الازهر
* الرجم في الاحاديث
* المسكوت عنه في سيرة عمر بن الخطاب
* ابو بكر ماذا تبقى منه في الفكر السني
* حريات لا يحميها القانون المصري

الموقع الفرعي في الحوار المتمدن

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Nov

Vice Squad

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Categories: Article, Islam, Politics, Religion, Sharia, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

SINFUL PLEASURES: Risking the wrath of the religious police, a woman in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, loosens her veil to eat an ice cream

HASAN JAMALI / AP

Thursday, Jul. 26, 2007

TIME Magazine

By SCOTT MACLEOD/RIYADH

On a hot and humid evening two months ago, a dozen police cars rolled up to the simple Riyadh residence of Salman al-Huraisi, a 28-year-old hotel security guard. The policemen stormed into the house, breaking down doors, tearing through personal belongings and crying, “God is great!” Then they arrested al-Huraisi, along with 10 other family members. His alleged crime: consuming and selling beer. Continue reading ‘Vice Squad’

Nov

Hisba : A Historical Overview

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Categories: Article, Hadith, History, Islam, Quran, Research, Sharia, Sunna and Terrorism

Hisbah (Arabic: حسبة hisba, ḥisba, “verification”) is an Islamic doctrine of keeping everything in order within the laws of Allah. This doctrine is based on the Qur’anic expression Enjoin what is good and forbid what is wrong.

This doctrine has the following major aspects.

An obligation of a Muslim
An obligation of a state to ensure its citizens observe the hisbah, in particular, the Sharia law.
In a broader sense, hisbah also refers to the practice of supervision of commercial, guild, and other secular affairs. Traditionally, a muhtasib was appointed by the Caliph to oversee the order in marketplaces, in businesses, in medical occupations, etc. The position of muhtasib may be approximately rendered as “inspector“. See Hisbah (business accountability) for this aspect.

For example, in Saudi Arabia, the state establishment responsible for hisbah is the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Continue reading ‘Hisba : A Historical Overview’

Nov

The Power of Blogs in the Arab World

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Categories: Article, Blogs, Islam, Religion and Terrorism

February 15, 2007 Edition 7 Volume 5

Arab blogs give youth venting space

By Mona Eltahawy

To appreciate the power of blogs in the Arab world, ponder for a moment a recent triple whammy–or hat trick, to use soccer parlance–scored by Egyptian blogs:

One: the exposure by blogs of sexual assaults on women in downtown Cairo by gangs of men during a religious holiday in Cairo in October 2006. Bloggers forced the issue onto the national agenda, turning it into headlines from satellite television channels to the Associated Press. Continue reading ‘The Power of Blogs in the Arab World’

Nov

Egyptian Exile

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By Joshua Muravchik

Wall Street Journal

Far from the public eye a drama is playing out that will have the utmost consequences for the Bush administration’s goal of promoting democracy in the Middle East. The region’s most prominent dissident, Egyptian sociologist Saad Edin Ibrahim, suddenly finds himself in a kind of perambulatory exile, hopping from conference to conference — in nine countries in the last three months. The one place he dare not go is home to Egypt because well-placed officials have warned him not to put himself within President Hosni Mubarak’s grasp.

Continue reading ‘Egyptian Exile’

Nov

Peace and Religion

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Prof. Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd
Islamic Studies
Leiden University

After September 11th the discussion about Islam and violence became the most favorite topic in the media. Because I do not want to repeat what I have been saying during the last 7 years since I came to Europe I will try here to address the topic “religion and peace”. By focusing on the issue of “peace” instead of dealing mainly and directly with the issue of “violence” I try my best to avoid getting into a ‘polemic’ or ‘apologetic’ mode of discourse. It goes without saying that the concept “peace” implies in its structure the other side of the coin “war” or “violence”. Continue reading ‘Peace and Religion’

Nov

Blogging your way into prison

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

By Shahed Amanullah, February 4, 2007



	Excuse me, can I have my laptop back

It probably was not wise (or productive) for Abdel Kareem Nabil, who goes by the blogger name Karim Amer, to call his alma mater, Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, “the university of terrorism.” But few expected that his blog would land him in an Egyptian jail on charges of “incitement to hate Islam” and “defaming the president of the republic.” His case has sparked international outcry and many say his imprisonment represents an alarming and growing trend in Egypt tostifle bloggers. In response to a growing movement called “Kifayeh”emergency laws which have been in place nearly continuously since 1967. Nabil’s arrest is particularly alarming, says Amnesty International, because Egypt’s blogs provide perhaps the only avenue to document human rights abuses in Egypt and to encourage civic dialogue. Continue reading ‘Blogging your way into prison’

Nov

Faithful questions about Islamic law

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The purpose of the Sharia is to promote justice and the common good. In a minority of instances, however, the Sharia has been an instrument of injustice and intolerance.

By Hesham Hassaballa, August 10, 2007

It’s cinematic

I do not think Hollywood could have come up with a more sensational movie. The famous Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad, Pakistan is raided by government security forces in a crackdown on militant religious seminary students locked in a stand off that lasted several days. The standoff began on July 3, when clashes erupted at the mosque and 16 people were killed. The mosque was then besieged by government forces, and negotiations began in hopes of ending the crisis. Continue reading ‘Faithful questions about Islamic law’

Nov

Sucking up to the Saudi king

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Categories: Article, Islam, Politics, Quran, Religion, Terrorism and Wahhabi

Irshad Manji

Posted in Irshaddering Thoughts on Oct 30, 2007

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is in the UK for a state visit. Just when you think the Bush White House has mastered how to kiss the ring of the king, British officialdom manages to out-do Washington — not only in ceremony but also in hypocrisy. Continue reading ‘Sucking up to the Saudi king’

Nov

From Muslim Youths, a Push for Change

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Categories: Article, Change, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion and Terrorism

Participants at Unprecedented Summit With U.S. Officials Confront Extremist Images

By Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 15, 2007; A15

Attending what Muslim American activists say is the highest-level meeting ever between Muslim American youths and U.S. officials, Mohamed Sabur couldn’t help but notice a frustrating paradox. Continue reading ‘From Muslim Youths, a Push for Change’

Nov

Salman Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are

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Categories: Article, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

From Times Online

June 21, 2007

In a battle between flaming fundamentalists and mute moderates, who do you think is going to win?

Irshad Manji

Growing up in Vancouver, I attended an Islamic school every Saturday. There, I learned that Jews cannot be trusted because they worship “moolah, not Allah,” meaning money, not God. According to my teacher, every last Jew is consumed with business. Continue reading ‘Salman Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are’

Nov

Anti-al Qaeda base envisioned

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Categories: Al Qaeda, Anti-Semitism, Article, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

Ahmed Subhy Mansour hopes for “official American help for our arrested people in Egypt” to further his moderate Islamic cause.

Article published Sep 26, 2007
an article from www.washingtontimes.com

By Willis Witter

Exiled Egyptian cleric Ahmed Subhy Mansour, whose teachings have earned him dozens of death “fatwas” from fellow Muslim clerics, uses the English translation for al Qaeda — meaning “the base” — to describe a plan to defeat Osama bin Laden and other terrorists, who he says have seized control of Islam.”Suppose you have here [in the United States] a base to counter al Qaeda in the war of ideas?” Sheik Mansour asked during a recent luncheon at The Washington Times. Continue reading ‘Anti-al Qaeda base envisioned’

Nov

Radical Reform : Ethics and Liberation

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Categories: Al Qaeda, Article, Future, Islam, Religion, Terrorism and Wahhabi

By Tariq Ramadan

On The Concept of Reform

The debate over the question of the renewal, revival and reform of Islamic sciences, and more particularly of law and jurisprudence (fiqh), has been running for a long time among Muslim scholars. Since the first schools of law (madhâhib, sing. madhhab) were constituted between the 8th and 10th centuries, intense legal discussions have opposed those who favour strict attachment to the historically constituted schools and those who call for a constant return to the primary scriptural sources, the Quran and the Prophet’s tradition (Sunnah). As early as the 12th century, Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî referred to the necessary “revival” (ihyâ’ of “religious sciences”, in a masterly, seminal work that precisely bears that title. The deep intuition that faithfulness to Islam through history required a permanent effort of research, renewal and reform of thought (and of methodologies) has been present in the world of Islamic sciences from their early days to the present, with highly flourishing periods and other utterly hostile ones. Closer to our own times, in the late 19th century, with the Nahda and Salâfiyya movements, and the critical output of Jamâl ad-Dîn al-Afghânî and Muhammad `Abduh,[1] those concepts spread and became constant in contemporary discourse, of course entailing many disputes, from the outright refusal of the idea of reform to the monopolising of its contents and objectives by some thinkers. For the past twenty years, the actors (whether scholars or thinkers), critics, commentators and observers of those debates have been expressing different, and sometimes radically opposed, views about the meaning of concepts – that of “reform” in particular – and about whether such or such a scholar or thinker could be labelled a “reformist” or a “reformer”. Continue reading ‘Radical Reform : Ethics and Liberation’

Nov

The Quranists as persecuted Muslim scholars

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

By: – Ahmed Mansour

In the early 1990’s, I was invited by the Egyptian association for religious brotherhood to lecture in a church in Cairo to Muslims and Christians about tolerance. I was warned that there was a suspicious bearded man waiting for me in front of the church.We talked. He told me that he had spent two months trying to meet me. He told me that he had been a member of secret fanatic organization and was assigned to rebut my discourse, but that my words had changed his and his family’s life. He asked me to join my weekly Friday prayer meeting at my home, and if possible bring his family.

After a month they became Quranists. Continue reading ‘The Quranists as persecuted Muslim scholars’

Nov

ISLAMIC SCIENCE

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Categories: Article, Future, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Research, Sunna and Terrorism

The Qur’an calls upon Muslims to look around them and study the physical world, so that they might appreciate the majesty of Allah’s creation.

“Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the night and the day; in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the benefit of mankind; in the rain which Allah Sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds, and the clouds which they trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth — (Here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise.” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:164) Continue reading ‘ISLAMIC SCIENCE’

Nov

DUA:Directed Brain Waves

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Categories: Article, Future, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Salat, Sunna and Terrorism

DUA: DIRECTED BRAIN WAVES
(Taken from the book —ISLAM)

by Ahmed Hulusi

“DUA IS THE WEAPON OF THE BELIEVER (mumin),” says RasulAllah! Are we really aware why it is so important to practice “DUA?”

What is “DUA” and what is it for? As there is no god-out-there, beyond yourself, then to whom do you pray (practice dua)? Let us try to answer those questions now…

“Dua” is an action of directing brain waves!

Let us recall some of the information we had given earlier in our previous pages …

Human, in respect to its “reality,” (haqiqat) is a content composed of Names that belonged to ALLAH… That is, human is like a formula composed of meanings that the Beautiful Names of ALLAH carry. To express it in a different way, ALLAH has rendered human as a kaliph of Himself on earth by means of making him exist via the meanings of Hu’s Beautiful Names.

After various transformations, those meanings of Names have been unfolded in the human brain in a form as it was ordained.

According to the statement (hukm) that “You cannot will except by the will of ALLAH,” your DUA (prayer) in reality is nothing but a wish belonging to ALLAH.However, there is a SYSTEM and ORDER by ALLAH, known as “sunnatAllah.” Here, such a wish originated from the Beautiful Names of ALLAH is sometimes revealed as a “DUA” from within yourself.Although it is commonly believed under the influence materialistic view that people could communicate with each other only by the agency of their lips and ears, communication is, in fact, a interaction between brains. There are so many times that we sense, perceive such a relation but cannot explain it logically due to lack of knowledge. Your “intuition” is a result of your early perception of incoming waves…

“DUA” arises from the Names of ALLAH (asma-uAllah) that is within your own essence and reveals as a wave directed for a purpose and reaches the aim. So, “DUA” is not a demand from a god outside yourself, but rather is a wish originated by “ALLAH” in your essence.

In another way of looking, “DUA” is the most powerful weapon for achieving your expectations. It is an appreciation of the power and potency belonging to “ALLAH” within your own essence.

You will pray, practice “dua,” so then you will direct the course of events, if that resided in your destiny. In fact, it is Hu’s self who directs, not you!The same way as the parasite signals are reduced when the earth’s semi-sphere turned back on the sun and short wave reception becomes powerful, human brain also becomes more sensitive and most powerful especially during midnight at late hours. This is the case both for reception (inspiration) and transmission (dua– praying). The importance of night time is particularly due to this fact in the “Deen-i Islam.” People lacking the practice dua, will suffer the detriment of both the appreciation and the potencies within their own essence and also the benefits resulting from praying. DUA is an exercise of the power belonged to “ALLAH” within your own essence.The fact that RasulAllah has prayed so often does not mean that he has asked for things from a god outside himself, but instead it shows that he has channeled the power and potency within himself that belongs to ALLAH, in the direction of his wishes.The more a person’s brain capability is powerful, the more one’s prayers (dua) and brain transmission are effective… You broadcast all your thoughts over the earth to the degree that your brain power allows, not only at times when you are communicating, but while you are thinking as well. And those frequencies are received by other corresponding receptive brains and are assessed as intuition or inspiration. It is in that respect that some of the effectual (authoritative) “spiritual people,” known as “irshad qutubs” in Sufism exercise power of disposal. What is known as reaching “enlightenment” (al faydh) is nothing other than a brain’s assisted revelation after another powerful brain’s transmission of directed waves. We have given detailed information about that in our book “DUA and ZIKR” which I strongly recommend you to read!..

In this chapter, we have tried to make you realize that “DUA” is one of the most effective tools in human’s life. Let us know that “ALLAH” will respond you from within yourself. Hu’s being aware of everything in your mind, is a result of your being brought into existence through Hu’s own being and of Hu’s revealing those that income from Hu through yourself.

Every person must continuously keep practicing “DUA,” and prayers at whatever spiritual state or level of awareness one is at, as RasulAllah did. It will be known more clearly in the life beyond death that nothing would have brought better income than one’s “DUA” and prayers.

May ALLAH make us realize the importance of “DUA,” appreciate it in our lifetimes as much as possible and therefore empower our “spirits.” And… May ALLAH make all these easy for us!

http://ahmedbaki.com/english/books/excerpts/zikr.htm

Nov

THE SPIRIT OF SUNNAH

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by Ahmed Hulusi

We do love RasulAllah and we also love His Sunnah… But did we ever question how true we understand him and his practices known as Sunnah?

In our Rosarium, I wanted to share with you, as far as I could remember, some words of our white haired sage Ahmed Hulusi about it which will drive us to the “spirit” of Sunnah and even makes us think that it is in fact “this spirit” that should be understood truly within this context.

With his shining looks far beyond the time that we are living, our white haired sage was questioning our situation with these words.

“Just think about it!

Did Mohammed (peace be upon him) live in agreement with the wearing style (manner of dressing) and the hair and beard style of the community he was living in fourteen hundred years before our time; or, did he refuse to their wearing style and followed a totally different wearing style from them?

We all know that Mohammed was coming from a pagan community and the people in that community worshipped many idols. There were even three hundred and sixty different idols inside the Qaba at that time and other than eight or ten khanif individuals among them people used to live as idol worshippers by worshipping those idols…

Mohammed (pbuh) was also dressed in the same way as that pagan people, wore his turban, robe and other clothes just like others did in his tribe and he grew his beard just like them, and even he ate and drunk the same way as others…

Well, since he did so and wore turban, robe and he was clothed just like the people of his tribe before his Nubuwwa, did he make any change in his wearing style after the Risala has come to him? Or, just like before, did he continue to follow a wearing style in agreement with the wearing style of his community that he was in?..
He did not make any change in his wearing style after his Risala and just like before, he acted in harmony with the wearing style of the community that he was in, all along his life time…

In that case, Mohammed has not brought a new rule about clothing as an issue, and as this subject had no importance, he has just fulfilled the Sunnah (customs) of pagans in his community. That is, in his era, Mohammed practiced the Sunnah about the wearing style that belongs to the pagan community he lived in…

If RasulAllah, had not agreed with the wearing style of the community he lived in, in that period and if, for instance, he had chosen to wear short trousers or any other cloth by refusing the others’ manner of dressing, then that style which he preferred upon refusing others, would be the Sunnah that belonged to him. But instead, without refusing the pagan customs in that respect Mohammed acted in agreement with the rules accepted by others in his community.

This means that, limiting yourself by the wearing style of fourteen hundred years ago would not be to fulfill the particular Sunnah of RasulAllah but rather to fulfill the Sunnah of pagans which was not rejected by Mohammed!

And what comes out from that is:

If you could understand and appreciate the “Spirit” of the Sunnah, you will see that concerning the issues that are not in conflict with the commands of the Koran, acting through the Sunnah (customs) of the community that you are living in, is the appropriate way to act on “Sunnah”.

Furthermore, think about this!

We call him “RasulAllah”, which means the “Rasul of Allah”—the one who articulates what he gets from within, Allah.

The Sunnah of Rasul of Allah could only be the Sunnah of Allah.

The statement that explains The Sunnah of Allah in the Koran is as follows:

“You shall not find any alteration in the Sunnah of Allah.”

And that never-changing Sunnah is the real Sunnah of RasulAllah.

http://www.ahmedbaki.com/english/books/rosarium/rosarium105.htm

Nov

COULD WE NAME “ALLAH” AS “GOD”?

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THERE IS NO GOD. THERE IS ALLAH

by Ahmed Hulusi

Zhikr, as we have commonly heard, is practiced in order to find favor in the eyes of a “god-out-there” by repeating his names!

Is it really for that?

In order to understand the reality about this theme, we must first of all realize “what” and “who” the “mentioned being” is…

Shall we practice zhikr (mentioning – meditation) of a “GOD” or of “ALLAH?” Most of the readers will naturally ask the following question now:

“—What difference does it make? Call him “GOD” or “ALLAH!” They are all the same! We, the Westerners have named him GOD! God is great!..”

No! God is not great! God is non-existent! Nonsense is any concept of a god!..

Who says it?.. It is said in the “Deen-i ISLAM” and in its holy book Koran al Karim that explains Islam! Rasul of ALLAH Mohammed Mustafa (peace be upon him) says that!

We have tried to clarify the vital importance of the difference between the concept “ALLAH” and any concept of a “GOD,” in great details in our books “Mysteries of Human” and “ALLAH as Introduced by Mohammed” which is printed nine times in English and we have tried to explain the “Deen-i ISLAM” based on the concept “ALLAH.”

Nobody can comprehend what the “Deen-i ISLAM” is about and why it has ever come, unless one fully understands the difference in meaning between a concept of “god” and the name “ALLAH” signifies. Without understanding it, one keeps misinterpreting the matter of RELIGION! Furthermore, one can never understand the reason why the practices (prayers-ibadat) in the “Deen-i ISLAM” have been suggested for human beings.

Therefore, we must, before all, fully comprehend the difference between what the word “god” refers to and the meaning that is denoted by the name “ALLAH!”

What does the name “GOD” tell us?

The word “God” is about a being afar-off yourself, myself, ourselves and away from the whole existence, who created the everything from outside, who observes us from outside and who, based on his judgement about ourselves, will either throw us into his Hell or admit us to his Paradise!..

Majority of humankind including all the religious authorities, who took the religious scriptures literally and could not go further beyond analogies, do believe in a “god.” They defend “that god” and endeavor to overrule people in the name of “that god!” The intellectuals and the people of reasoning do not believe in such a god, as they have conceived that there could not be such a thing. Therefore they do not give heed to the words of religious authorities.

Yet, the understanding of the “Deen” based on the concept “ALLAH” is a reality commonly cherished and experienced by all the Sufis and Awliyah (Saints)! Unfortunately, very few of men have been aware of this fact!..

According to the Koran al Karim that explains such a reality, “ALLAH” created the universe and everything that is perceived to be present, “within the Science (ilm) of Hu, through the Power (qudrat) of Hu and by means of the qualities that Beautiful Names (asma-ul husna) of Hu refer to.” As a result of this, what we call the laws of nature or the universal ORDER is nothing other than the ORDER and the SYSTEM of “ALLAH.” By the same token, humans are in need of becoming aware of “ALLAH” within their own ESSENCE and turn toward their essence instead of worshipping a “god” outside themselves.

All of the Awliyah in all times, have sought to direct people toward an understanding of “Deen” established on the concept “ALLAH” and toward a spiritual state of “awe” (hashyat) resulting from their understanding. On the other hand, the formalist religious authorities have always portrayed a “god afar-off” and have tried to make people get scared of him in order that they could establish their supremacy…

Neither the Koran and nor Hazrat Mohammed (peace be upon him) described a “god-out-there” who is watching us from outside, and who will judge by our deeds and make up his mind, and consequently throw us into his Hell or admit to his Paradise…

On the contrary, our holy Book and the Rasul of ALLAH inform us about “ALLAH” being within ourselves, in our Essence who formed our own reality (haqiqat)!

That’s why such an act as gossiping about someone or misleading, cheating one, acting bad, or a wrongful seizure has in fact been done to “ALLAH” who is the Truth (haqiqat) of that person.

It is by the same reason that the Rasul of ALLAH notified: “One has not been grateful for ALLAH until he is grateful for people!..”

That is, it is “ALLAH” within the Essence (ultimate core) of anything perceived Whom you turn toward to thank, not an imagined god afar off you that you have created in your illusion. We cannot understand the perfection (superiority) of the “Deen-i ISLAM” up until we grasp this reality properly!

If so, may we ever name “ALLAH” as a male “GOD?”

It will be our next topic!

COULD WE NAME ALLAH AS GOD?

by Ahmed Hulusi

A group of unaware people who pass judgements about the “Religion” based on their hearsay and false information, have been employing the word “GOD” instead of the name “ALLAH,” being unaware of the matter and thinking that these words both carry the same meaning, and also relating it with their patriotism according to their whims…

In the previous chapter, I have tried to make it clear that any concept that the word “god” refers to is completely different in meaning than what the name “ALLAH” refers to. These are two different words with completely different meanings.

Shall we now make it clear through a passage from the Koran Interpretation written by the excellent interpreter Hamdi Yazir of Elmali in 1940’s, which is most comprehensive and detailed interpretation published in Turkish by the Religious Affairs Directorate. Let us see what he says in it:

“The word ALLAH has never been applied to anything other than ALLAH, neither in proper form nor in common. Take the names such as “ilah” and “huda,” for example; none of them is a proper noun as “ALLAH.” They imply a concept of “god” (ilaah), “lord” (rabb) or “idol” (maabud). It has been said “gods”(alihatun) as the plural form of “god,” “lords” (arbab) as of “lord,” etc…Unlike, it has never been said “ALLAHS” and can never be said so. If we hear such a usage of words from someone, we conclude that he is ignorant and negligent. The noun “GOD” is not like this; you can even call false idols as “gods.” Pagans (mushrikeen) even used to worship many gods. Some of them had so-and-so gods, others had so-and-so gods.So, the common name GOD is not synonymous for the proper noun “ALLAH,” and is not an equivalent for “ALLAH.” “God” is a very common phrase! Therefore one should never translate the name “ALLAH” as “GOD.” (Vol. 1, p. 24-25)One should never call “ALLAH” as “god,” according to this excellent Koran Interpretation written in Turkish.We must also take the following significant differences into consideration:

The word “god” is a common adjective, yet “ALLAH” is a proper noun for the Unique Essence (zat), out of Whose there is nothing independent in existence.

I mean, that is not a matter of mere languages or word pronunciation. There is an enormous difference between the meanings of these two words.

An understanding of a religion with a “god” or a concept of “godliness” is groundless and false!

The original “Deen-i ISLAM” in effect is fully based on the meaning denoted by the name “ALLAH.”

The statement “la ilaha ill-Allah” means “there is no god, there is ALLAH alone.” In order to be an earnest Muslim, we must first distinct that difference in meaning properly.

If we limit our comprehension fixed with a concept of a “god,” we suffer the detriment of the meaning the name “ALLAH” refers to, for it will consequently make us losers of the treasure of khaliphness (khilafat) mystery.

“God” is a being out-there, afar-off yourself, that is worshipped!

“ALLAH” is the Reality (haqiqat) within your Essence, Who is being served all along!

“God” is a bugaboo to be “frightened!”

“ALLAH” is the source of a “deep reverence,” an “awe” (hashyat) for the people of insight, which is generated through comprehension of their nothingness beside the limitlessness and infinity.

“God” is a ruler and a judge afar-off, assumed to be out-there, which is sculpted in the minds of inefficient people according to their fancies.

“ALLAH,” unlike, is the One and the only Absolute Being, Who created the universes through Hu’s own being and Who is being experienced along with Hu’s Names (asma) at every particle, with none else to be compared onto Hu…

“God” is a fictitious balooney sculpted in people’s minds in accordance with the humankind’s perception, adorned and smartened up with various faculties and assumed as a possessor of people’s imaginary ascriptions, at every age and in every community depending on the level of people’s understanding.

“ALLAH” is Ahad (the Ultimate Whole), Samed, Lamyalid and Lamyulad.

Well, if so, can there be someone who is authorized to rule IN THE NAME OF “ALLAH” and the DEEN?

http://ahmedbaki.com/english/books/din/din23.htm

Nov

Basic Islamic Concepts in the Light of the Quran

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Quran, Salat, Satan, Sharia, Sunna, Terrorism and Zakat

http://www.quranicteachings.co.uk/concepts.htm

Oct

ISLAM DENOUNCES TERRORISM

By Stefan 4 Comments

Categories: Al Qaeda, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

Oct

Muslims & the Internet : For Muslims, social networks bring new challenges

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Social, Sunna and Terrorism

Are Muslim social networking sites viable and competitive enough to attract Muslim users from MySpace and Facebook? A group of new websites feels it is up to the challenge.

By Zahed Amanullah, July 26, 2007

Feeling popular yet?

In the oft-cited glory days of the Islamic world, Muslim explorers like Ibn Battuta created vast networks around the world to promote trade and to learn about other cultures. The Silk Road Ibn Battuta travelled linked nations together in a way they never had before, changing them irrevocably and creating an interdependence that became the forerunner of today’s globalised world.

It’s hard to imagine what Ibn Battuta would think of today’s overly networked societies. Advances in transport, communication, and technology over the past century have made leaps beyond cultures instantaneous and accessible to nearly everyone. Commercial access and the free flow of money have been amplified immeasurably by the Internet. And on a personal level, online social networks have become the new frontier.

Among young people, these sites have proven themselves to be more popular than any other form of media. The rapid growth of Friendster MySpace (now 160 million users and growing), led to the latter’s groundbreaking $580 million aqcuisition by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Facebook, which started as a network among Harvard students, is now the fastest growing social network site, adding some 150,000 users each day. All of these users form a valuable demographic for advertisers, which accounts in part for MySpace’s wildly speculative valuation.

For the ever increasing Muslim diaspora, the appeal of social networks has also become widespread. They have taken to them in droves, with over 2.1 million of them self identified by religion on MySpace alone. Scores of others have done so on Friendster (45 million total users) and Facebook (30 million total users). But it is this popularity that has spurred the formation of social networks that cater specifically for Muslims, with entrepreneurs seeking both to capitalise on a growing economic market and also aiming to provide services and protections for Muslims who feel that the freewheeling worlds of existing social networking sites aren’t sensitive to their needs. Sites like Naseeb.com, MuslimSpace.com, Muslimica, and the soon to be launched Mecca.com have approached these challenges in a variety of different ways with differing degrees of success.

“There are over 105 million Muslims online globally, and Internet adoption rates in Muslim countries are among the highest in the world,” says Sami Al-Taher, Mecca.com’s CEO. “It’s hard to believe that the only mainstream online communities available to us are based in the USA, and don’t resonate with the Muslim population around the world.” Naseeb.com, the first and currently largest of the Muslim social networking sites, has the most number of users, with over 320,000 so far. But others are catching up. MuslimSpace.com, a part of a Muslim portal called Muxlim, has 25,000 users and growing.

But what does a Muslim social network have to offer? For most users, it’s a sense of safety in numbers, with protection from content they find uncomfortable and a way to link with Muslims directly. “The aim of Muslim social networks is not necessarily to pull all Muslims away from general sites, but to complement users’ online experience with Muslim-oriented services, guidelines and features that they would not find otherwise in general communities,” explains Mohamed El-Fatatry, Muxlim.com’s CEO. “Each social network tends to have its own flavour and its own audience.” Saleem Baig, of Muslimica.com adds that he wants to “ensure Muslims from all over the world find a safe secure place to express themselves and their views.”

However, if a “safe” space implies that a user’s sensibilities are not offended, it doesn’t necessarily mean that views won’t be challenged. Even with the few Muslim sites available, there are variations in the aspects of “moral policing” that takes place. Naseeb.com is arguably the more liberal, with areas of the site dedicated to music and debate and less emphasis on monitoring content. But Muxlim.com makes it a key distinction. “Moral policing is one of the important aspects of Muslim-oriented sites, which I believe provides an extra degree of comfort to Muslim users who wish to use technology without crossing into grey areas of their values and ethics,” says El-Fatatry.

“Users are absolutely free to judge each other,” concurs Al-Taher. “That is part of what makes social networking and other online communities so engaging. People want to be free to express their opinions and to be heard. We encourage our users to be honest and open about their opinions.” Although a degree of these types of exchanges already occur between Muslims and non-Muslims on conventional sites, moderating it somewhat to attract a significant number of Muslims remains a primary motivator. Of course, many Muslim countries will moderate the sites anyway, potentially blocking access internally, as Facebook experienced recently in the relatively liberal U.A.E.

But like the main social networking sites, Muslim social networks are businesses that require economic viablity. The revenue potential from conventional social networks, particularly from advertising, varies wildly. Facebook claims they are on track to earn $1 billion/year by 2015. Friendster could have claimed the same at one point, but the company is now seen as having missed the revenue boat. Many of these sites rely on either their young, Western demographic (Facebook) or sheer numbers (MySpace) to attract the attention of marketers, but many users are becoming immune to ads that target them.

These issues are compounded for Muslim sites, which have to deal with targeted products and services that may be fewer in number and less developed than their secular counterparts. “Muslim businesses are currently too small or are simply not aware of the huge audience they can reach through advertising on Muslim network sites to reach their niche audiences,” says Muslimica’s Baig. Al-Taher is more optimistic. “We believe there are many ‘mature’ businesses that serve the Muslim community with exceptional products and services. However, it is true that these companies that have been leveraging limiting and antiquated media to reach prospective customers.” But if Muslim social networks can’t find enough funding to pass the startup phase, these theories may just be academic. Muxlim.com, in particular, has struggled to find Muslim investors.

Economics aside, the value of a Muslim social network may still be a hard sell. Any social network has to succeed on its utility and entertainment value. The argument for a safe space is understandable when viewed against the chaos of MySpace (where most “friends” can be anonymous and uninvited) but not necessarily with Facebook where friends are defined from the start as people you know directly. Muslims also may simply want to go where the buzz is, just like young people anywhere. In this regard, it’s far easier for well populated and well-designed non-Muslim sites to pull Muslim users in than vice versa. Facebook’s recent decision to open up its architecture to third party developers means that Muslims can create applications to modify the site’s functionality.

Recently, the Malaysian government criticised Britain’s Top Gear automotive show for buying a Malaysian-made Perodua Kalisa – a Muslim car, in other words – and blowing it up because it had “no soul.” The Kalisa, a budget car that sells for about $8,000 USD, may well suit the developing world, including Malaysia. But given the means, aspirational and increasingly affluent Muslim masses in Malaysia and elsewhere would gladly choose a Japanese or German make on the basis of quality, innovation, and branding. The marketing of a Muslim product alternative to Muslims means little if it is perceived as a pale imitation of a superior original.

For the young Muslim social networks available, this factor is both a warning and a challenge. To succeed in an increasingly crowded marketplace, developing a “soul” may be all they need – the “soul” of Ibn Battuta or the “soul” of the next big thing.

Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com. He is based in London, England.

Oct

Restoring the Image of Islam

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By: Luthfi Assyaukanie

19/9/2007

Last month, I have attended the lecture of Karen Armstrong, a British scholar who is very sympathetic to Islam. She delivered a lecture entitled The Role of Religion in the New Millennium. Almost all through her lecture, she talked about Islam and its various challenges. This forum, attended by more or less thousand participants in a ballroom of a Singapore’s hotel, was very fascinating particularly for Muslims who perceived that they were supported. Continue reading ‘Restoring the Image of Islam’

Oct

What happened to “good Islam”?

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Confronting extremism

What happened to “good Islam”?

I reject this “Islam” of carnage, irrationality, social disorder and murder. I accept an Islam of problem solving, love and rational thought. That is an Islam that people can live with. Continue reading ‘What happened to “good Islam”?’

Oct

Stereotyping Of Muslims Demeans Our Democracy

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Categories: Article, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Quran, Religion, Terrorism and Wahhabi

By Benjamin J. Hubbard

Stereotyping is a deceptive and malicious way of asserting the superiority of one ethnic, national or religious group over another. Its fruits are bigotry, violence and war. It thrives on half-truths, generalizations and fear.

A recent example is an email floating like space garbage through the Internet that I have received from five different sources within the past year. It makes several assertions about Islam and Muslims that are either false or simplistic. The email begins with the question, “Can a Muslim become a good American citizen?” The anonymous email then provides a series of negative responses or stereotypes from “a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years.” Here are five of the most misleading of the stereotypes followed by clarifications. Continue reading ‘Stereotyping Of Muslims Demeans Our Democracy’

Oct

Reinterpreting Islam

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Categories: Article, culture, Future, Hadith, Hijab, Islam, Islamophobia, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

A post-era feeling has gripped the world of Islam. It appears to many of us that we are living in an age of agonizing boredom when history is wrapping itself up and when momentous events are not taking place any more. Our allurement of the past – when our history was at its zenith and when we enjoyed the Golden Age wherein the pious elders perfected the process of thinking, leaves almost no role for us in any future scheme of things. In short, the future history, as we conceive it today, is no more than an empty shell of a used cartridge. Continue reading ‘Reinterpreting Islam’

Oct

The Islamic Human Rights Commission

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Categories: 9-11, Al Qaeda, Article, Bush, culture, Islam, Islamophobia, News, Quran, Religion, Research, Search, Terrorism and Uncategorized

http://www.ihrc.org/

“The Islamic Human Rights Commission was set up in 1997. We are an independent, not-for-profit, campaign, research and advocacy organization based in London, UK. We foster links and work in partnership with different organizations from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds, to campaign for justice for all peoples regardless of their racial, confessional or political background. Continue reading ‘The Islamic Human Rights Commission’

Oct

DEMOCRACY IN THE QUR’AN -III-

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Categories: Article, culture, Iraq, Islam, Islamophobia, Lecture, Politics, Quran, Religion, Research, Search, Social, Terrorism and Uncategorized

SHURA IN ISLAM

Some Muslims say that ISLAM requires absolutely all decisions made by and for the Muslim societies to be made by shura. To some, this means that Islam enjoins REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. This belief is characteristic of LIBERAL MOVEMENTS WITHIN ISLAM.

Other Muslims say that Islam requires submission to existing rulers, however they are chosen, so long as they govern according to sharia or ISLAMIC LAW. This is a more traditional approach, characteristic of many centuries of Islamic history (see History of Islam).

The difference between the two appears more semantic than actual – the latter accept that the rulers must be accounted in all aspects of ruling, to ensure affairs are managed in the best possible way whether decisions were taken through consultation or not. Continue reading ‘DEMOCRACY IN THE QUR’AN -III-‘

Oct

DEMOCRACY IN THE QUR’AN -II-

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Categories: Article, Bush, culture, Islam, Islamophobia, News, Politics, Quran, Religion, Research and Terrorism

THE ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY IN ISLAM

Summary of Remarks by Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour

December 16, 2002

On December 16, 2002, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour gave a public presentation at the National Endowment for Democracy on the “The Roots of Democracy in Islam.” Speaking before an American audience for the first time, Dr. Mansour traced the sources of democratic thought in Islamic theology and discussed his ideas of how Islam’s democratic potential may be realized in the modern Muslim world. Continue reading ‘DEMOCRACY IN THE QUR’AN -II-‘

Oct

DEMOCRACY IN THE QUR’AN -I-

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Categories: Article, Bush, Conspiracy, culture, Islam, Islamophobia, Limits, News, Politics, Quran, Religion, Salat and Terrorism

Quran & Democracy

Are they compatible?

Thursday September 22nd, 2005, by Muhammed Asadi

What has happened in modern bureaucratic societies, that parade as democracies (like the USA), is that the chance to reason and the ability to be free has been lost (see http://robots.asadi.org) that is the nature of a bureaucratic society: a society where standardization is the norm and the person is surrounded by rules that govern behavior from birth to death. Such “democracies” exists in form only and not in essence, here choices are not formulated by a “public” but rather insinuated upon a highly propagandized “mass society” that knows next to nothing regarding public issues. This is achieved by control of the “cultural apparatus” by a small aristocracy, the Power Elite. The “cultural apparatus”- language, education, status and technology- with the media and the formal educational institutions playing a dominant role, thus ensures that this elite achieves cultural hegemony. The person thinks he or she is free and living under a “democracy” but the reality of the situation is much different. Continue reading ‘DEMOCRACY IN THE QUR’AN -I-‘

Oct

WHAT WENT WRONG?

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Categories: 9-11, Al Qaeda, Article, Conspiracy, History, Islam, Islamophobia, News, Politics, Religion, Terrorism and Wahhabi

Early American Support for the Taliban

First published in Spring 2002

Article by Olivier Roy

Back when Soviet troops occupied Afghanistan, it may have seemed like a good idea for the US to sow the wind of the Islamic Mujahidin opposition in the country. The result, however, was the whirlwind of the fundamentalist Taliban and terrorist network al Qaeda—especially after the US lost interest and left on-the-ground engagement to the Pakistani secret service. Continue reading ‘WHAT WENT WRONG?’

Oct

Sunni Scholar

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Categories: Article, Hadith, History, Islam, News, Politics, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Video

Oct

Massoud’s Letter To The People Of America

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Categories: 9-11, Al Qaeda, Article, CIA, Conspiracy, Documentary, Drugs, History, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, Video and Wiki

Date: 1998

A Message to the People of the United States of America

I send this message to you today on behalf of the freedom and peace-loving people of Afghanistan, the Mujahedeen freedom fighters who resisted and defeated Soviet communism, the men and women who are still resisting oppression and foreign hegemony and, in the name of more than one and a half million Afghan martyrs who sacrificed their lives to uphold some of the same values and ideals shared by most Americans and Afghans alike. This is a crucial and unique moment in the history of Afghanistan and the world, a time when Afghanistan has crossed yet another threshold and is entering a new stage of struggle and resistance for its survival as a free nation and independent state. Continue reading ‘Massoud’s Letter To The People Of America’

Oct

IN THE SHADE OF DEATH – A CRITICAL READING OF SAYYID QUTB’S

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Categories: 9-11, Al Qaeda, Anti-Semitism, Article, Christianity, Hadith, History, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism, Wahhabi and Zionism

Sayyid Qutb (IPA pronunciation: [‘saɪjɪd ‘qʊtˁb]) (also Seyyid, Sayid, Sayed; also Koteb, Kutb) (Arabic: سيد قطب; October 9, 1906 – August 29, 1966) was an Egyptian author, Islamist, and the leading intellectual of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s. He is best known in the Muslim world for his work on the social and political role of Islamic fundamentalism, particularly in his books Social Justice and Ma’alim fi-l-Tariq (Milestones). His extensive Quranic commentary Fi zilal al-Qur’an (In the shades of the Qur’an) has contributed significantly to modern perceptions of Islamic concepts such as jihad, jahiliyyah, and ummah. He is best known in the West as “the man whose ideas would shape Al Qaeda.” Alternative spellings of his first and last names include Saïd, Syed, Koteb (rather common), Qutub, Kotb, etc.

Continue reading ‘IN THE SHADE OF DEATH – A CRITICAL READING OF SAYYID QUTB’S’

Oct

No Justice, No Peace

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Continue reading ‘No Justice, No Peace’

Oct

Fundamentalism from a Fundamentalist’s Perspective

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By Mu’adz D’Fahmi

29/10/2003

Title: The Battle for God

Author: Karen Armstrong

Publisher: Serambi and Mizan

Edition: I, August 2001

Content: xx + 641 page

Karen Armstrong is a British prominent researcher in religious studies. After seven years as a Roman Catholic nun who failed to find “God” in the Papal system, she left the church in 1969 and continued her study of religion at Oxford University. Some of her works have become best sellers listed in the New York Times, as for example, The Gospel According to Woman (1987), Holy War (1991), Muhammad; A Biography of the Prophet (1992), and A History of God (1993). Continue reading ‘Fundamentalism from a Fundamentalist’s Perspective’

Oct

Islamic Studies Textbook and Violence

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Categories: Al Qaeda, Article, Hadith, Islam, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

By Luthfi Assyaukanie

9/2/2007

Recently, U.S. Freedom House’s Centre for Religious Freedom released a report analyzing the syllabus and textbook of Islamic studies courses used in Saudi schools. One of the important findings is that ideology of hatred and enmity toward Christians, Jews and Muslims who do not subscribe to the Wahhabi doctrine remains in this area of the public school system.

Continue reading ‘Islamic Studies Textbook and Violence’

Oct

Fighting Terrorism: Recommendations by Arab Reformists

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Categories: 7-7, 9-11, Al Qaeda, Article, Bush, Hadith, History, Iraq, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, News, Palestine, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

The question of how to fight Islamic terrorism preoccupies many Arab reformists who are working to denounce Islamist thought, to encourage independent and critical thinking, and to establish values of democracy and human rights in the Muslim world. For example, in February 2005, a group of reformists submitted to the U.N. a request that it establish an international court to judge Muslim clerics who incite to violence and bloodshed. The request was examined by the U.N. legal counsel and distributed to the U.N. Security Council.(1) Continue reading ‘Fighting Terrorism: Recommendations by Arab Reformists’

Oct

Blind Faith

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By Irshad Manji
The Wall Street Journal

Muslim reaction to the beheading of Nicholas Berg tells us a lot about what’s happening in the Islamic world. More than that, it reveals what’s not happening, yet needs to, if Muslims are going to transcend the intellectual and moral crisis in which we find ourselves today.

First, the good news. A few scholars at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, the Harvard of Sunni Islam, are denouncing Mr. Berg’s decapitation. So are a handful of Muslim lobby groups in Europe and North America. Add some English-language newspapers based in the Middle East, and a picture of progress emerges. Continue reading ‘Blind Faith’

Oct

Don’t Blame the “Jews”

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Categories: Anti-Semitism, Article, Hadith, History, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Palestine, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Zionism

Another disturbing trend that is heavily propagated by extremists and accepted by many naive Arabs and Muslims is the blaming of all Muslim problems on the Jews. There are numerous examples for this but most recently news broadcasts out of Iraq quoted Iraqi victims of violence who blamed the bombings on Jews or a Jewish conspiracy.Many Arabs and Muslims still blame the 9-11 attacks on a Jewish conspiracy that was allegedly perpetrated to demonize Arabs and Muslims in the eyes of the world. Continue reading ‘Don’t Blame the “Jews”’

Oct

Solving the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

By Stefan 3 Comments

Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

No issue has the same global impact as the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. During the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union twice raised their security alerts and aggressively challenged each other over this conflict. The oil embargo of the 1970s was inspired by the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Numerous militants, terrorist groups and governments around the world which seek legitimacy place the Palestinian/Israeli conflict at the forefront of their agenda. And while the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is not the cause of terrorism, solving this conflict may transform the political landscape of the entire Middle East and expose the various agendas of numerous violent groups who leach on this conflict to win the hearts and minds of emotional and unsuspecting people. Continue reading ‘Solving the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict’

Oct

Our Positions

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

Terrorism

The Free Muslims Coalition believes that there can NEVER be a justification for terrorism. The Coalition believes that fundamentalist Islamic terror represents one of the most lethal threats to the stability of the civilized world. The existence of Islamic terrorists is the existence of threats to democracy. There is no room for terrorism in the modern world and the United States should take a no-tolerance stance on terrorism in order to avoid another tragedy, along the lines of 9-11. With the added threat of biochemical weapons, the call to defeat terrorism has never been so urgent. Continue reading ‘Our Positions’

Oct

Did Al-Hajjaj Change The Qur’an?

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Written by M S M Saifullah, Muhammad Ghoniem & Abu Ammar Yasir Qadhi
Wednesday, 22 February 2006
1. IntroductionIt had been claimed by Orientalists and missionaries that al-Hajjaj was responsible for changing the some contents of the Qur’an. The scandal surrounding al-Hajjaj is apparently based on two different traditions, one Muslim and the other Christian. The Islamic source is Kitab al-Masahif of Ibn Abi Dawud where a report mentions that al-Hajjaj made eleven changes in `Uthman’s mushaf. As for the Christian source, the prominent one is of exchange of letters between Ummayad Caliph `Umar II and the Byzantine Emperor Leo III. A less prominent writing is that of an apology attributed to `Abd al-Masih al-Kindi.We would begin by examining the report in Kitab al-Masahif of Ibn Abi Dawud, the problems with the interpretation of Orientalists and missionaries, the authenticity of the report and the implication of the alleged changes made by al-Hajjaj. Followed by this would be the analysis of polemical sources and their authenticity. The document is divided into following sub-headings: The Report In Kitab al-Masahif Of Ibn Abi Dawud Hadith Criticism Of The Report: The Study of Isnad Hadith Criticism Of The Report: The Study of Matn The Christian Polemical Sources: Letter Of Leo III & `Abd al-Masih al-Kindi Conclusions Continue reading ‘Did Al-Hajjaj Change The Qur’an?’

Sep

The Ulema (Scholars) —Who Are They?

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

Glossary of Terms:

The Quran was revealed in the Arabic language, the expression of which is neither poetry nor prose, but has its own unique style and rhythm. It has rare beauty and grandeur; it is sublime. To translate such a language into another and retain its spirit, beauty, force, and depth is just not possible. An attempt can be made to translate a piece of literature, but when it comes to the Quran, which is a charter of human rights—a constitution—one has to be absolutely certain that the actual meaning is not lost during the course of translation. In addition, each language has its own phrases, idioms, and expressions that are specific for its culture and values. It is not possible to translate a concept that exists in one culture into a single word of another language that does not even recognize that concept. This can be illustrated by Persian and Urdu translations—they retain Arabic words like kafir, momin, mushrik, rahman, raheem, sabr, sawab, salat, zakat, etc. These words were in use before the advent of Islam and so the Arabs knew what they meant. It is of paramount importance for the reader to know the meanings of these words because they convey specific Quranic concepts and a simple English translation would either be in Biblical terms, or out rightly contradictory to the spirit of the message. Finally, because these words are used repeatedly in the Quran, we have provided a glossary to more efficiently explain the concepts in their original form. Continue reading ‘The Ulema (Scholars) —Who Are They?’

Sep

POLITICAL SYSTEM: Man-Made Systems

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Primitive Age

ANTHROPOLOGY does not support the view that man ever lived a solitary life like the tiger or the lion. He was weak and defenceless against the powerful beasts that roamed about him. He could survive only through some form of group life. A band of men could survive under conditions in which a single individual had no chance, so early men naturally lived in groups. Some form of social Organisation is necessary for group life. Men can co-operate with each other only at the cost of their egoistic impulses. The dictates of group life invade individual liberty. The first social ties came from blood relationship. The groups were almost overgrown families. The authority exercised by the father passed into the hands of the patriarch, the head of the tribe. Custom regulated the conduct of the members, of this group. Primitive man believed that the customs of his tribe were unchangeable and inviolable. Patriarchal authority and rigid customs protected the social order and were an effective check to all kinds of anti-social activities in which individuals might be tempted to engage. However, a new authority enlarged in the group—this was the priest. His supremacy was founded on his expert knowledge of the religious ritual, and of correct behaviour in the temple and on solemn occasions. Ritual had gradually become very complex, and the patriarch had to place it in the charge of a professional man. Superstitious, a factor to be reckoned with in primitive life, lent powerful support to the authority of the priest. In a changing world no form of social organisation can be permanent. The tribal organisation dissolved giving place to a purely political organisation. The Raja or King supplanted the patriarch. He was usually a man who had organised a military force which had enabled him to extend his dominion over several tribes. The political system that arose was composed of different tribes. A consequence of this change was that the hold of tribal customs on man was considerably weakened. People saw their fellow-citizens observing different customs, and hence any particular custom could no longer be regarded as sacred and inviolable. The social order had now to be maintained by physical force. If the king was powerful, he usually succeeded in this task and held the straggling group together He usually relied on officials whom he had personally appointed. The new social order, however, could not be as stable as the tribal order which was based on blood-ties and time-honoured customs. Men could not be held in check for long by mere brute force. Risings and rebellions often shook the king’s authority. In this predicament he sought for an ally and such an ally was close at hand. The priest also had vested interests which he was not willing to relinquish. Any social or political upheaval would endanger the vested interests of both the king and the priest. The result was that the king and the priest made common cause, and each gave the other mutual support. The king bolstered the power of the priests in the religious domain and took steps to protect the interests of the sacerdotal order. The grateful priest cloaked the king with sanctity and awe. The obedience of the people was now enforced both by force and superstition. Continue reading ‘POLITICAL SYSTEM: Man-Made Systems’

Sep

Ban Islam?

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by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
August 29, 2007

[NY Sun title: “Keep the Koran Legal”]

Non-Muslims occasionally raise the idea of banning the Koran, Islam, and Muslims. Examples this month include calls by a political leader in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, to ban the Koran — which he compares to Hitler’s Mein Kampf — and two Australian politicians, Pauline Hanson and Paul Green, demanding a moratorium on Muslim immigration. Continue reading ‘Ban Islam?’

Sep

Combating the Ideology of Radical Islam

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Categories: Article, Future, Islam, Islamophobia, Religion, Terrorism and Wahhabi

by Daniel Pipes and Graham Fuller
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
April 10, 2003

Special Policy Forum Report
Analysis of Near East Policy from the Scholars and Associates of the Washington Institute

On April 3, 2003, Daniel Pipes and Graham Fuller addressed The Washington Institute’s Special Policy Forum. Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and an adjunct scholar of the Institute. His most recent book is Militant Islam Reaches America (W.W. Norton, 2002). Mr. Fuller is former vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council at the Central Intelligence Agency and senior political scientist at RAND. His latest book is The Future of Political Islam (Palgrave, 2003). The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks. Continue reading ‘Combating the Ideology of Radical Islam’

Sep

Muslims Silence Critics

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By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/6/2007

After a police raid Friday at Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, bakery employee Devaughndre Broussard admitted to murdering Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post. Bailey was writing a series of investigative articles about the Bakery – and that’s why, according to police, Broussard killed him. Continue reading ‘Muslims Silence Critics’

Sep

Hitler’s Racial Ideology: Content and Occult Sources

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Categories: Anti-Semitism, Article, History, Politics and Terrorism

by, Jackson Spielvogel and David Redles

In a 1931 interview with a Leipzig newspaper editor, Adolf Hitler made a passionate declaration of the true significance of his National Socialist movement:

The Frenchman Gobineau and the Englishman Chamberlain were inspired by our concept of a new order-a new order, I tell you, or if you prefer, an ideological glimpse into history in accordance with the basic principle of the blood. We do not judge by merely artistic or military standards or even by purely scientific ones. We judge by the spiritual energy which a people is capable of putting forth, which will enable it in ten years to recapture what it has lost in a thousand years of warfare. I intend to set up a thousand year Reich and anyone who supports me in battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would almost say divine-creation. At the decisive moment the decisive factor is not the ratio of strength but the spiritual force employed. Betrayal of the nation is possible even when no crime has been committed, in other words when a historical mission has not been fulfilled.1 Continue reading ‘Hitler’s Racial Ideology: Content and Occult Sources’

Sep

Fanatics and terrorists misguided

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Categories: Al Qaeda, Article, Bible, Christianity, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

“America’s fight against terrorism is justified by the Quran”, says Imam Tammam Adi Ph.D, Director of the Islamic Cultural Center of Eugene, Oregon.

I will try to show that America’s fight against terrorism is justified by the Quran, and that fanatics and terrorists misinterpret the Quran to justify their views.

Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, is a descendant of Abraham. His message, the Quran, confirms the Gospel and the Torah. Its essence is that we should love God above everything and not play God on this earth (Allahu akbar), and also that we should treat all humanity as brothers and sisters. Continue reading ‘Fanatics and terrorists misguided’

Sep

The Philosopher of Islamic Terror

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Categories: Al Qaeda, Article, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Palestine, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

By PAUL BERMAN

I. In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, many people anticipated a quick and satisfying American victory over Al Qaeda. The terrorist army was thought to be no bigger than a pirate ship, and the newly vigilant police forces of the entire world were going to sink the ship with swift arrests and dark maneuvers. Al Qaeda was driven from its bases in Afghanistan. Arrests and maneuvers duly occurred and are still occurring. Just this month, one of Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenants was nabbed in Pakistan. Police agents, as I write, seem to be hot on the trail of bin Laden himself, or so reports suggest. Continue reading ‘The Philosopher of Islamic Terror’

Sep

A Statement From

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

By: – Ahmed Mansour

In the name of Allah, the Almighty, the most Merciful

A condemnation statement against the kidnapping of the Korean hostages by “Taliban”

The international Quranic Center (IQC) strongly denounces the “Taliban” movement for kidnapping innocent people and taking them hostages for political gains.

While IQC condemns this cowardly act by Taliban against peaceful innocent foreigners who are guests in Afghanistan, it is worth mentioning that: Continue reading ‘A Statement From’

Sep

The Suicide Bomber

By Stefan 47 Comments

Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

By: – Ahmed Mansour

FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/3/2005

As we face our Islamist terrorist enemy in this post-Cold War era, it becomes clear that we are engaged in yet another world war. This present war on terror is, without a doubt, a new kind of war. We can summarize its new aspects with one concrete example: the suicide bomber. He is eager to blow himself up in order to kill as many innocent people as possible from among Christians, Jews and, yes, other Muslims. Young men are usually inspired by dreams of the future and of enjoying their lives, but the suicide bomber is motivated only by the thought of being a martyr and he is convinced that virgins are waiting for him in paradise and will reward him for blowing himself up amongst “infidels.” Continue reading ‘The Suicide Bomber’

Sep

What is the Definition of Terrorism?

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

What is the Definition of Terrorism?

“Terrorism is simply a word, a subjective epithet, not an objective reality and certainly not an excuse to suspend all the rules of international law.”

– John V. Whitbeck, The Daily Star

Continue reading ‘What is the Definition of Terrorism?’

Sep

WAR IN THE QURAN

By Stefan 43 Comments

Categories: Al Qaeda, Article, Hadith, Islam, Islamophobia, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

Written for Free-Minds.Org (e-mail: free@free-minds.org)

“And kill them wherever you find them…” (Quran 2:191)

The above part of a verse has been duplicated in countless sites and many publications to be used as a testimony for the ‘violence’ and cruelty that is encouraged by the words of the Quran…

In this article, we will dispel the myths surrounding warfare in the Quran and show exactly ‘what’ the GOD of Submission (Islam) teaches. Continue reading ‘WAR IN THE QURAN’

Sep

Seeking Moderation : Giving the Wahhabis too much credit.

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Politics, Quran, Religion, Sunna, Terrorism and Wahhabi

In his rush to exculpate the Islamic extremists who would impose sharia as the exclusive form of law in every Muslim society, David F. Forte writes in his NRO piece, “Religion Is Not the Enemy,” that “as offensive to human rights and dignity as the stoning of a woman for an act of sexual immorality is, it is not the same as flying a plane into a building to kill thousands of innocent civilians.” Continue reading ‘Seeking Moderation : Giving the Wahhabis too much credit.’

Sep

9/11 was an inside job

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Categories: 911, Article, Bush, CIA, Conspiracy, Politics and Terrorism

Saturday, Sep. 22, 2001

By Sally Donnelly

US officials are compiling what one called “growing” evidence that other hijackings may have been planned for September 11. Officials from both the government and the airline industry tell TIME Magazine that a knife-like weapon was found on each of two separate Delta Airlines aircraft later that day, although neither plane took off due to the nationwide grounding after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on hijacked United and American airlines planes. Continue reading ‘9/11 was an inside job’

Sep

ISLAM HIJACKED

By Stefan 3 Comments

Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

by Aidid Safar (pseudonym), April 10, 2005

PREFACE

According to the Quran, Chapter 3 Verse 20 it says:- “The Way of life (deen) according to God is Islam.”

Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad were God’s prophets. The three of them brought the same deen or Islam to mankind.

The Children of Israel first conspired against Islam when they abandoned the Torah and called themselves Jews. Later they rejected Jesus the son of Mary who came to reconfirm the scripture. They remained Jews. Continue reading ‘ISLAM HIJACKED’

Aug

How Evil Works

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Categories: Article, Politics, Religion and Terrorism

Friday August 24th, 2007, by Martin LeFevre

Evil is the intentional component of the collective darkness in human consciousness. It is the calculated expression of the entire content of the willful ignorance, hatred, envy, jealousy, and selfishness built up in the human mind and heart over the generations. Darkness is a vast content, needless to say, and it is not only accumulative, but it’s growing exponentially.

As such, darkness must be confronted within, or it will snuff out the human spirit, perhaps soon. If that happens, it won’t matter how much longer we go on physically. Continue reading ‘How Evil Works’

Aug

War is the Enemy

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Categories: 911, Article, Bush, Conspiracy, Islam, Politics and Terrorism

Perceptions of Reality & the U.S. ’War on Terror’

Monday June 19th, 2006, by Muhammed Asadi

Arguments by media pundits regarding the ‘war on terror’ and how the U.S. can ‘win’ it, assume that the U.S. is fighting a genuine war in which it seeks victory and ultimately peace. This assumption is based on a flawed assessment of the causes of war and its relationship to the U.S. political economy. The faulty premise, almost always involves an equation in which war is considered an abnormality (something undesirable) and peace, the normal (or desirable) state of affairs. In the past, war was a means to an end, be it self-defense or protection (just) or ruthless conquest, political or economic (unjust). The military, as an institution was subservient to the political economy. That hierarchy of institutions does not exist anymore. War now has become a ‘fact’ of life, that people have accepted as a normal state of affairs, and other institutions have adjusted to accommodate this new reality. Victory or no victory, post World War 2, the U.S. has never settled for peace; when one conflict ended, it has started another. Continue reading ‘War is the Enemy’

Aug

The Terrorist’s Propaganda Works!

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Categories: Article, Islam, Politics, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

Syu’bah Asa:

Dimuat: 5/12/2005

The video recorded testimony of Bali suicide bombers made before launching their attacks (01/10/2005) indicates that suicide bombing has become a trend among Muslim youths in Indonesia. Did they become more radical and dauntless on executing a suicide bombing? Bellow is the interview conducted by Novriantoni and Mohamad Guntur Romli from Liberal Islam Network with Syu’bah Asa, a senior journalist and author of Tafsir Ayat-Ayat Sosial Politik (Tafseer on Social-political Verses of Quran), on Thursday (17/11). Continue reading ‘The Terrorist’s Propaganda Works!’

Aug

Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahab

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Categories: Article, Islam, Religion, Terrorism and Wahhabi

Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahab (1703-1791)

Oleh: Luthfi Assyaukanie

Dimuat: 12/1/2004

Modern observers often consider fundamentalism to exist in the margins of power and to have no significant influence upon state policies. This claim is however incorrect if we relate it to the role of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahab and his disciples whom are well-known as Wahabiyah. This movement did not merely exist in the center of power, but had a great influence upon the formation and growth of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Continue reading ‘Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahab’

Jun

MUSLIM AMERICANS

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Categories: Book, Conspiracy, Islam, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

MUSLIM AMERICANS:
MIDDLE CLASS AND MOSTLY MAINSTREAM

May 22, 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Overview …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1

Chapter 1: How Many Muslims Are There in the United States?……………………………….9

Chapter 2: Who Are the Muslim Americans? A Demographic Portrait………………………15

Chapter 3: Religious Belief and Practice………………………………………………………………..21

Chapter 4: The Muslim Experience:
Identity, Assimilation and Community…………………………………………………..29

Chapter 5: The Muslim Experience:
Challenges, Worries and Problems………………………………………………………..35

Chapter 6: Political and Social Values…………………………………………………………………..41

Chapter 7: Foreign Policy, Terrorism, and Concerns about Extremism………………………49

Chapter 8: Study Methodology……………………………………………………………………………..57

Survey Topline………………………………………………………………………………………………………75

muslim-americans.pdf

Jun

Only 40% of U.S. Muslims believe 9/11 was carried out by “Arabs”

By Stefan 9 Comments

Categories: Article, CIA, Conspiracy, Hadith, Islam, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

Following on a poll of Muslim populations in Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia that showed only 25% of these people accepted the official identification of the perpetrators of 9/11, comes a new poll focused on American Muslims by the respected Pew Research Center in DC.

Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream

May 22, 2007

The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world.

The Pew Research Center conducted more than 55,000 interviews to obtain a national sample of 1,050 Muslims living in the United States. Interviews were conducted in English, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. The resulting study, which draws on Pew’s survey research among Muslims around the world, finds that Muslim Americans are a highly diverse population, one largely composed of immigrants. Nonetheless, they are decidedly American in their outlook, values and attitudes. This belief is reflected in Muslim American income and education levels, which generally mirror those of the public…

…Relatively few Muslim Americans believe the U.S.-led war on terror is a sincere effort to reduce terrorism, and many doubt that Arabs were responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Just 40% of Muslim Americans say groups of Arabs carried out those attacks.

A comprehensive survey by World Public Opinion.org of the University of Maryland reveals that a large number of Muslims don’t buy the official story of 9/11. They also reject, overwhelmingly, violent attacks on civilians. Many of them feel that the US is out to weaken and divide Islam in general, and this affects their views on “al Qaeda”, reflected in the graph below;

What the hell is “al Qaeda” anyway? Nafeez Ahmed’s answer here.

I borrowed the headline from Big News Network.com

Jun

Afghan Opium Production Timeline

By Stefan 33 Comments

Categories: 911, Article, Bush, CIA, Conspiracy, Drugs and Terrorism

1982-1991: Afghan Opium Production Skyrockets

Afghan opium production rises from 250 tons in 1982 to 2,000 tons in 1991, coinciding with CIA support and funding of the mujaheddin. Alfred McCoy, a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin, says US and Pakistani intelligence officials sanctioned the rebels’ drug trafficking because of their fierce opposition to the Soviets: “If their local allies were involved in narcotics trafficking, it didn’t trouble [the] CIA. They were willing to keep working with people who were heavily involved in narcotics.” For instance, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a rebel leader who received about half of all the CIA’s covert weapons, was known to be a major heroin trafficker. Charles Cogan, who directs the CIA’s operation in Afghanistan, later claims he was unaware of the drug trade: “We found out about it later on.” (Weaver 5/1996; Rosen 9/30/2001) Continue reading ‘Afghan Opium Production Timeline’

Jun

GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME

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Categories: Article, Bush, Conspiracy, Earth, Life and Terrorism

The White House, USA

* ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
* I attacked and took over two countries.
* I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.
* I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.
* I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
* I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
* I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
* I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. Continue reading ‘GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME’

May

9-11 Facts

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Categories: 911, Article, CIA, Conspiracy, Drugs, Terrorism and Videos

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Dick Cheney was running several war games in the north eastern portion of the United States. These drills included many hijacking scenarios, where commercial jets were hijacked and flown into buildings. At the same time Cheney had arranged for a drill involving a bio attack on NY. This resulted in FEMA setting up a command post on pier 29 in New York on September 10th.

Some of these drill were scheduled for later in the year but Dick Cheney rescheduled them and made sure that they all took place on the same day. This was unprecedented. Continue reading ‘9-11 Facts’

May

9/11 Truth Movement: Only Growing Stronger – And the Media are Frightened to Death!

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Categories: 911, Article, Conspiracy and Terrorism

The corporate media have launched a desperate attempt to eliminate all discussions about the official body of evidence related to the events of 9/11. Just watch how they are trying frantically to get Rosie O’Donnell fired from ABC’s The View. Also think back to when the media launched a broad based attack against the character of Charlie Sheen for daring to publicly question the official story of 9/11. Rosie, however, is a much greater problem for the criminals in the media. She is on a daily network TV program with a large audience that doesn’t even know that questions and disturbing facts about 9/11 exist. Continue reading ‘9/11 Truth Movement: Only Growing Stronger – And the Media are Frightened to Death!’

May

Government Heard 9/11 Plans from Hijackers’ Own Mouths

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Categories: 911, Al Qaeda, Article, Conspiracy and Terrorism

Many essays have discussed the U.S. government’s foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Indeed, the number of facts pointing towards likely foreknowledge are so numerous that it is easy to get lost in the details.

This essay focuses solely on the proof that American and allied intelligence services actually heard the hijackers discuss and make their plans before 9/11.

Initially, an FBI informant hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000.

And a CIA agent allegedly met with Bin Laden in an American hospital in July 2001

Furthermore, Israel tracked the hijackers’ every move prior to the attacks, and sent agents to film the attack on the World Trade Centers.
Continue reading ‘Government Heard 9/11 Plans from Hijackers’ Own Mouths’

May

911: Can You Handle The Truth?

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Categories: 911, Al Qaeda, Article, Conspiracy and Terrorism

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

9-11 is one of the most infamous days of our current time. Many people experienced the events of that day with surprise, shock, sadness, and anger. I am one of them.All of these emotions clouded my judgment until I early on discovered an entire, very credible counter culture for lack of a better term that from almost day one has researched and opposed the official government story parroted by the mainstream. This counter culture that involves people and experts from all walks of life has been mostly unable to get an honest spirited debate in the mainstream without being labeled nut cases and anti-American. Why is this? Continue reading ‘911: Can You Handle The Truth?’

May

A Nation in Silent Anger

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Categories: 911, Al Qaeda, Article, Conspiracy and Terrorism

Reverberations

Can you hear that deep, silent anger inside you, pounding like a heavy iron fist on a wooden door, banging relentlessly every time you notice the America of your dreams vanish more each and every day, instead becoming a most unwelcome nightmare that you are impotent to wake up from? Can you feel the hollow pain in your bones, the restlessness running through your veins every time another freedom is gutted or another right is eviscerated, every time your government climbs one more step up the stairwell of corporatism?

Can you feel the reverberations of resentment echoing in your mind every time a politician votes to expand the power of the elitist and corporate world, once more ignoring the will of the constituency? Can you feel the frustration of being impotent to the machinations of a government once defined as of, by and for the People serving only the interests of money and becoming a government of, by and for the corporatist world? Continue reading ‘A Nation in Silent Anger’

May

This is a new kind of war, How we can win it?

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Categories: Article, Islam, Terrorism and Wahhabi

As we face our terrorist Wahabi enemy in this post-Cold War era, it becomes clear that we are now fighting World War IV. This new war, without a doubt, is a new kind of war. We can summarize its new aspects with one concrete example: the suicide bomber. He is eager to blow himself up in order to kill as many innocent people as possible from among Christians, Jews and, yes, other Muslims. Young men are usually inspired by their dreams of the future and of enjoying their lives, but the suicide bomber is motivated only by the thought of being a martyr and he is convinced that virgins are waiting for him in paradise to reward him for blowing himself up amongst “infidels”. Continue reading ‘This is a new kind of war, How we can win it?’

May

The (Secret) Heartbeat of America

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Categories: Al Qaeda, Article, CIA, Drugs and Terrorism

By DANIEL HOPSICKER

Everybody wants to be wanted, even television producers. So even though the little production company of which I am a part already has a business magazine television show up and modestly successful (Global Business 2000; don’t tell us you haven’t seen it) we wanted more. We had seen with our own eyes, for example, the sickening spectacle of what passes for entertainment these days: Tammy Faye Bakker at NATPE (television production convention) last year, peddling some talk show in syndication. And with one of the major studios distributing, yet! Continue reading ‘The (Secret) Heartbeat of America’

May

Pearl Harbor: Fifty Years of Controversy

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Categories: 911, Al Qaeda, Bush, CIA and Terrorism

At 7:49 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, 183 Japanese dive- and torpedo-bombers, accompanied by Zero escorts, launched the first of two attacks against the American base at Pearl Harbor. A second wave of 168 Japanese aircraft arrived at 9 a.m. Eighteen operational warships, including four battleships, were sunk or heavily damaged; 188 aircraft were destroyed. 2,403 Americans were killed, among them 68 civilians, and 1178 were wounded.

Although the Japanese achieved local surprise, their success was less than complete. The Pacific Fleet’s three aircraft carriers were not in port. Nine heavy cruisers, all but three light cruisers, and virtually all of the destroyers remained afloat. None of the fleet’s submarines was lost. And the commander of the Japanese task force, Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, refused to authorize a third strike that could have led to the destruction of Pearl Harbor’s naval dockyards and oil storage tanks, the loss of which would have neutralized Hawaii as a forward base for counter-offensives against Japanese moves toward the Philippines, Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies. Continue reading ‘Pearl Harbor: Fifty Years of Controversy’

May

CIA, Drugs, and Wall Street

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Categories: 911, Al Qaeda, Article, Bush, CIA, Drugs and Terrorism

NOTE: At the time this story was written it looked like the House Intelligence Committee was going to get away with closing out the CIA drug investigations. But thanks to the efforts of From The Wilderness that resulted in class action suits being filed against the CIA in Los Angeles and Oakland and other publicity we have generated Volume II has not been closed out. They can’t because too many people are watching. On October 12, 1999, investigators from House Intelligence came to Los Angeles and copied 6,000 pages of our records for review. Going into 2000, Volume II is still very much an open investigation and FTW is proof that something can be done. – MCR

Don’t Blink!

All Promises Broken – Volume II Hearings Held Without Notice – Behind Closed DoorsYou Might Miss What’s Next

Michael C. Ruppert

May

“Oh Lucy! – You Gotta Lotta”

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Categories: 911, Al Qaeda, Article, Bush, CIA, Drugs, Fuel, Iraq and Terrorism

[Expanded and Revised Sept. 4, 2002 – Evidence of Bush Administration Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming. Since our last revision July 11, 2002, 16 New Items! (noted in RED)]

Nov. 2, 2001, 12:00 PST — On Oct. 31 the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official — presumably the chief of station. The meeting, held in bin Laden’s private suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and last year’s attack on the USS Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January. Yet on July 14, 2001 he was allowed to leave Dubai on a private jet, and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him down. Continue reading ‘“Oh Lucy! – You Gotta Lotta”’

May

The Enemy Within

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Categories: 911, Al Qaeda, Article, Bush, CIA and Terrorism

by Gore Vidal

Introduction

On 24 August 1814, things looked very dark for freedom’s land. That was the day the British captured Washington DC and set fire to the Capitol and the White House. President Madison took refuge in the nearby Virginia woods where he waited patiently for the notoriously short attention span of the Brits to kick in, which it did. They moved on and what might have been a Day of Utter Darkness turned out to be something of a bonanza for the DC building trades and up-market realtors. Continue reading ‘The Enemy Within’

May

This War on Terrorism is Bogus

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Categories: 911, Al Qaeda, Bush, CIA and Terrorism

The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination

Massive attention has now been given – and rightly so – to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British motives too. The conventional explanation is that after the Twin Towers were hit, retaliation against al-Qaida bases in Afghanistan was a natural first step in launching a global war against terrorism. Then, because Saddam Hussein was alleged by the US and UK governments to retain weapons of mass destruction, the war could be extended to Iraq as well. However this theory does not fit all the facts. The truth may be a great deal murkier

We now know that a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld’s deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush’s younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney’s chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America’s Defences, was written in September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Continue reading ‘This War on Terrorism is Bogus’

May

Police quiz 7 July bomber’s widow

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Categories: 7-7, Al Qaeda, News and Terrorism

Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 17:56 GMT 18:56 UK

The wife of 7 July bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan is among four people being questioned in connection with the 2005 attacks, which killed 52 people.

Officers arrested Hasina Patel, 29, her brother Arshad Patel, 30, and Khalid Khaliq, 34, in West Yorkshire; Imran Motala, 22, was held in Birmingham.

They are being held in London on suspicion of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism.

Seven addresses in the West Midlands and West Yorkshire are being searched.

Suresh Grover, who has represented Ms Patel since 2005, said he was “shocked and outraged” at the arrests.

“Hasina and her family have co-operated with the police, intelligence services, with the coroner, they have been in regular contact with everyone,” he said.

“There is… absolutely no reason for these dramatic arrests to take place in this fashion.”

BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said Ms Patel’s representatives insisted she had simply been trying to rebuild her life. Continue reading ‘Police quiz 7 July bomber’s widow’

May

The Divine Text and Pluralism in Muslim Societies

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Categories: Article, Hadith, Islam, Quran, Religion, Sunna and Terrorism

by Mohamnicid Shahrour
Plurality may refer to religion, nationality, political views, political jurisdiction, and individual opinion,
all gathered with-in a single society. Hence, speaking about pluralism in Muslim societies is to speak
about freedom and democracy.

In a Muslim context, freedom and democracy should be understood in relation to Arab and
particularly Islamic tradi-tions and heritage, and the ways in which they are related to the events
surrounding the establishment of a state in the 5ev-enth century at Medina. This state was based on
the emer-gence of a new divine message that completed and sealed all previous ones. At that point,
the existing Arab society was cohesive, with its own conventions, morals, and civilization. Continue reading ‘The Divine Text and Pluralism in Muslim Societies’

May

The Wahhabi Myth

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Categories: Book, Terrorism and Wahhabi

The Wahhabi Myth (2nd Edition) – Dispelling Prevalent Fallacies and the Fictitious Link with Bin Laden By Haneef James Oliver

The ‘Wahhabi’ Myth by Haneef James Oliver clarifies many of the gross inaccuracies and outright lies that have been attributed to the belief of the Salafi Muslims (often referred to as “Wahhabis”). Although some reporters have been vigilant enough to rebut some of these widespread fables, most have fallen headfirst into what one discerning reporter called, “the neo-conservative line that the whole conspiracy against America can be traced back to Wahhabism and the government of Saudi Arabia.” Continue reading ‘The Wahhabi Myth’

May

On Israel, Palestine, and Terrorism

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Categories: Article, Israel, Palestine, Quran, Religion, Terrorism and Zionism

Compared to their small population, the Jewish influence is immense in global platform, financially, politically and culturally. Disproportional to their population, Jews have exhibited astonishing examples in both good and bad, in both success and blunder, and they have enjoyed vivid presence in world politics for millenniums. This explains why the Quran mentions them so frequently. Well, may be it is also true the other way around. Continue reading ‘On Israel, Palestine, and Terrorism’

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By Averroes Jr

Afghanistan’s opium production’s on the rise, now the DEA is busting one dealer but smuggling twenty by

All the money drugs and guns provides a culture that’s designed, for the Protocols of Zion to become a reality on the ground

So this Masonic-run corruption is printing eyes in dollar signs, as Satanic cults adjust to men like Bush and Colin Powell

Preaching freedom love and Jesus, to believers like the Bible preachers, readers though would know that those priests deceived us since they grieved on Jesus

Jesus even warned about those peoples that would ‘Come between us’, Jesus even said that they would use His name to spread their evils

Look this ain’t no joke, they f**king broke a deal with Devil’s daemons, just focus on the Cross behind the pope, it’s upside down and you can f**king see it

Hanging from the ceiling like a Devil’s piece you best believe it, and in a way unraveling conspiracies and 9/11’s evil theories

Symbolizing Satan’s secrets using geometric reverse, flip any geometric symbol upside down and guaranteed you’ll feel the daemons

Skulls and Bones or Bloods and Crypts both prey on life with “Spoons and Needles”, just read your book or check the scripts ’cause ignorance is how they beat us

Only we can help reveal ‘em ’cause nobody can catch ‘em scheemin, this is NOT the century that’s meant to be for THEIR decievin’……..

Two different visions of Islam:

I know you are probably getting tired/annoyed at hearing from me — my humble apologies. But something is happening in DC that EVERYONE must be aware of, because it will affect all of us:

We believe:

Any sort of aggression projected upon innocent human beings is wrong. This concerns both Muslim and non-Muslim communities and organizations. Whatever be it the cause, the act of using innocent lives to gain any right or power is impermissible.

In this same light, we find it perhaps important to highlight several of the commandments of the Quran that are fundamental to the religion and that have unfortunately often been misinterpreted, wrongly explained, and falsely inherited. Namely,

Unlike Sunni and Shia laws that condemn any apostate to death for rejecting Islam, the Quran allows for absolute Freedom of Faith (2:256, 10:99; 18:29).

Unlike the popular misbelief that Islam allows raids and attacks on other non-Mulsim entities in the name of Holy War, we believe in the Quran that states that war is justified only in the case of self-defense, not in offense.

Unlike Sunni belief that forbids silk and gold to be worn on men and deem music, statues, dogs unlawful, we believe that in Islam, music, statues, gold and silk are lawful (7:32–33, 16:116).

Unlike Sunni and Shia rulings that have allowed for the nurture of dictatorships and monarchs that have abolished any form of democracy, we believe that according to the Islamic teachings, government should be based on consultation and on the freedom of speech.

“Muslim!” is quickly becoming one of the worse insults to call someone.

When a Presidential candidate—Barack Obama—is so much as (falsely) rumored [1] to be Muslim, it is considered a smear. Mr. Obama, a Christian, and the son of an atheist and a Christian, has to keep five signed letters from Christian clergy in his office, just in case.

Even a Presidential candidate who comes from a marginalized religious background— Mitt Romney—cannot accept the idea [2] of a Muslim in the cabinet.

In a 2004 survey [6] by Cornell university, almost half of the national respondents favored curtailing the civil liberties of Muslims. An astonishing 40 percent of Republicans wanted American Muslims to register their whereabouts (24 percent of Democrats).

There is a stubborn resistance among many Americans to the idea that Muslims are a multifarious and diverse group of 1.2 billion humans, living in every nation and culture of the world.

Long before 2001 when Islamic reformation became in vogue, Muslims whose teachers were executed and who had to go into exile, were writing books about it [12].

Long before America cared about the rights of women in the Muslim world, Muslim women were launching anti-honor killing jihads [13].

One of the most far reaching attacks against Islamically sanctioned forced marriages has been a film from Pakistan [14], not a vitriolic screed written in a high-end magazine in London.

Putting aside what Muslims outside of America are doing, it bears asking why American Muslims are so reviled given that they have been almost model citizens.

Further, Zogby International found [20] that while only 8.6 percent of Americans have advanced degrees, that number is 32 percent for American Muslims.

A free clinic serving underserved areas run by American-Muslims in Los Angeles was recently recognized by Congress [21]. One of my good friends runs another similar clinic in Las Vegas.

Average Americans have to stop and ask ourselves how we allowed “Muslim” to become such an insult and what to do about it. Here are some suggestions:

Make a distinction between a “Muslim” and an “American-Muslim.” The former should refer to people of the Islamic faith around the world. The latter should refer to Muslims in the United States. The two words are not interchangeable.

Consider that American Muslim organizations that purport to speak for American Muslims do not in fact uniformly do so. American Muslims organize in many ways beyond those of affiliation with national organizations.

Realize that while most Arabs are Muslims, not all Arabs are Muslim (many are Christian). Further, while some Muslims are Arabs, most Muslims are not Arab. Globally, only 18% of Muslims are Arab.

CBC interview with Irshad Manji on the topic of faith, organized religion and Islam. Fair warning, Irshad Manji is not an orthodox voice on the topic of religion.

Since its free online release via Google Video in the spring of 2007, the film has been viewed over 10 million times.

Choice FM targets Notting Hill Carnival with gun crime ad

LONDON – Choice FM is launching a hard-hitting TV and cinema campaign, featuring a bullet travelling through inanimate objects in slow motion, as part of its wider campaign against gun crime. Continue reading ‘Stop the bullets. Kill the gun.’

“We felt the country was at risk from terrorists and from incompetence…and maybe worse.”

On the fifth anniversary of the attacks, Press For Truth aired throughout the Middle East on the Al Jazeera television network. It was soon purchased by TV stations in Spain, Norway, Poland, and all of South America.

Video: Irshad’s interview with young Pakistani journalist Imran Siddiqui

My Take

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

– Voltaire, 1694-1778

You cannot trust your judgment if your imagination is out of focus.

– Mark Twain, 1835-1910

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الموقع الفرعي في الحوار المتمدن

Hisbah (Arabic: حسبة hisba, ḥisba, “verification”) is an Islamic doctrine of keeping everything in order within the laws of Allah. This doctrine is based on the Qur’anic expression Enjoin what is good and forbid what is wrong.

This doctrine has the following major aspects.

An obligation of a Muslim

An obligation of a state to ensure its citizens observe the hisbah, in particular, the Sharia law.

For example, in Saudi Arabia, the state establishment responsible for hisbah is the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Continue reading ‘Hisba : A Historical Overview’

Arab blogs give youth venting space

To appreciate the power of blogs in the Arab world, ponder for a moment a recent triple whammy–or hat trick, to use soccer parlance–scored by Egyptian blogs:

The purpose of the Sharia is to promote justice and the common good. In a minority of instances, however, the Sharia has been an instrument of injustice and intolerance.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is in the UK for a state visit. Just when you think the Bush White House has mastered how to kiss the ring of the king, British officialdom manages to out-do Washington — not only in ceremony but also in hypocrisy. Continue reading ‘Sucking up to the Saudi king’

Participants at Unprecedented Summit With U.S. Officials Confront Extremist Images

By Michelle Boorstein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 15, 2007; A15

Attending what Muslim American activists say is the highest-level meeting ever between Muslim American youths and U.S. officials, Mohamed Sabur couldn’t help but notice a frustrating paradox. Continue reading ‘From Muslim Youths, a Push for Change’

In a battle between flaming fundamentalists and mute moderates, who do you think is going to win?

Look this ain’t no joke, they fking broke a deal with Devil’s daemons, just focus on the Cross behind the pope, it’s upside down and you can fking see it

By Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 15, 2007; A15