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Tolarance towards other faiths 2007-09-24 04:23:35 Contrary to the common assumption, the practice in the early Muslim Umma was tolerant towards other faiths. A Christian or Jewish woman was not forced to change her faith in case of marriage to a Muslim man. In the Holy Qur’an Jews and Christians are called ”People of the Book”. Marriage to a pagan woman was not allowed if she did not convert to Islam.
The Prophet emphasized in many letters to his emissaries that religious institutions should not be harmed. Here in a letter addressed to his emissary to the religious leaders of Saint Catherine in Mount Sinai who has sought the protection of the Muslims:
“This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by God! I hold out against anything that displeases them. No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are
One more click to reach Islam4Women 2007-09-23 11:43:26 Update: The site has moved as of October 3rd, 2007.
Islam
4Women
began in 1999, and will become www.islam4women.org soon, in blog form. This move began in September 2007 and will require time. The design and content are still temporary. In the meantime visit the old version of the site.
Aim: Clearing misunderstandings and introducing Islam to non-Muslims concentrating on women issues, human rights and tolerance towards other faiths.
by Mona
Women in Islam versus Women in the Judeo-Christian Tradition 2007-10-13 16:55:08 The Western media is portraying women in Islam
as the symbol of subordination of women ‘par excellence’. This picture is so complete that even an attempt to scratch it is in vain. Unfortunately, many journalists choose to rely on wellknown stereotypes. Muslims count over 1 billion in the world altogether and naturally many sects, small and large, have split from the moderate mainstream Islam, which constitutes ca. 90 % (called the “Sunni”-Muslims). In most Muslim countries today women are advancing and exercising their rights by participating in politics, education, working as judges, professors, doctors etc.
I warmly recommend the following web page to all my readers … since you have come to my page you should not miss that one. There you will find proof that it was the Judeo-ChristianTradition
that truly oppressed women and it is the Islamic teaching where you find equality and companionship between a man and a woman… And the Veil is not an Islamic invention!
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The Last Sermon of Prof. Muhammed 2007-11-15 10:28:54 The Farewell Pilgrimage of the Prophet Muhammed (p.b.u.h.) was a significant historical event in the Muslims life. Although thousands of Muslims witnessed the Farewell (last) Sermon
given by the Prophet Muhammed (p.b.u.h.), 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.
Shiites changed this version of the Sermon to read, the book of Allah and my family, while the Sunnites changed it to read, the Book of Allah and my Sunnah. Only the version that talks about QURAN ALONE is the only one that does not contradict the QURAN and does not have any political motive behind it. It is the version ignored by the sects of the Sunnites and Shiites because it does not support their political agenda.
Here are the references to the three versions of the Sermon:
1) I leave with you Quran and Sunnah, Muwatta, 46/3
2) I leave with you Quran and Ahl al-bayt (meaning th
Teach not our children the undeniable falsehood! 2007-12-02 03:20:53 I am quite critical about the Hadiths - the reports from the early Muslim community and the years thereafter. They were collected, sorted out and written down ca. 250 years after the death of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.).
They reflect the customs and beliefs of that time and should not always be taken literally.
Science today has a more accurate picture f.e. of the universe than people had 1400 years ago. In some hadiths astronomical phenomena are explained in clearly unscientific manner, from falling stars to the moon splitting in two. People around the Prophet narrated these and for centuries they were taken literally.
Even if the Prophet did make all these statements, then they must be seen as his sincere belief what he thought was right. After all he was an ordinary man, as He himself stated on numerous occasions. Please read also the topic No. 8 ”Hadiths” on the right.
Unfortunately, very often they take a more important role than the Quran i
Blessed Holiday Season! 2007-12-17 15:23:56 Eid El-Adha Greetings to my readers, may God show us all the right path and bestow peace on earth upon his creation!
"And thus have We willed you to be a community of the middle way, so that, with your lives, you might bear witness to the truth before all mankind, and that the Apostle might bear witness to it before you" (Qur'an 2:143)
The Pilgrimage is one of the five Pillars of Islam and believers who can afford it should perform it once in his or her lifetime. (Please also read the “What is Islam?” page, link found on the right menu).
This year the number of the pilgrims have risen to a record 2,6 million. They are all present at the same time in the small desert Town of Mecca. In the last years the number of visas have been reduced simply because the infrastructure cannot support more people at one time. They are available only for older people, the sick, disabled and on other special circumstances.
Although the authorities have done a great job by enla Read more:Season
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Caricature controversy 2008-02-27 16:02:13 CARTOONS, CONTROVERSY, BIGOTRY
Here we go again!
The Islam caricature controversy hardly needs introduction, it was in prime time news all over the world in 2005. The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten invited cartoonists to participate in a caricature contest about Islam and its Prophet. Twelve cartoons were [...]
Hippocratic Oath 2008-02-24 05:09:52 Hippocratic Oath
“ I SWEAR in the presence of the Almighty and before my family, my teachers and my peers that according to my ability and judgment I will keep this Oath and Stipulation.
TO RECKON all who have taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents and in the same spirit and dedication [...]
Tolerance towards other faiths, Part II 2008-01-19 05:08:19 Again and again while reading other blogs and forums the notion comes up, that Islam does not tolerate other faiths and that its main aim would be to convert others under Islam by violent means. As proof they quote isolated Hadiths and suras of the Quran . Nothing would be more wrong and [...] Read more:Tolerance
Catholic-Muslim Forum is to meet in November 2008-03-14 12:38:22 Finally good news after years of mistrust, misinformation and controversy:
Catholic
-MuslimForum
is to meet in November
Rome — While many Muslims remain hurt by Pope Benedict XVI’s 2006 remarks in Regensburg on Islam, the decision announced Wednesday to create a joint Catholic-Muslim Forum is a “welcome sign of hope,” Muslim delegates said after two days [...]
“Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear” 2008-03-19 12:34:24 What a strange header for an article by the well known Canadian writer Naomi Klein!
The Nation: Obama
, Being Called a Muslim
Is Not a Smear, by Naomi Klein
Hillary Clinton denied leaking the photo of Barack Obama wearing a turban, but her campaign manager says that even if she had, it would be no big [...]
“One of the 100 most influential people in the world” 2008-03-22 13:50:26 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
was named in 2005 by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people
in the world.
For some time now it has been in my mind that I should write about her, because she is spreading information as Islamic which actually is NOT and the readers of [...]
Movies and Controversy 2008-03-30 07:23:55 In need of information and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s thoughts I contacted Hirsi Ali at the only address I found, her official website. After a few days I received an answer, which I copy here partly, because this is our common interest:
“.. Unfortunately, Ms. Hirsi Ali’s schedule does not permit her to respond to [...] Read more:Controversy
Universial Soldier 2008-04-05 11:14:22 Today I would like to share with You one of my favorite’s music
Buffy Sainte-Marie
A native Canadian singer-song writer.
Listen here
“I wrote ‘Universal Soldier’ in the basement of The Purple Onion coffee house in Toronto in the early sixties. It’s about individual responsibility for war [...]
“Send me your stereotypes” 2008-04-11 12:37:29 Another woman among the 100 most powerful women in the world is
HM Queen Rania of Jordan (Number 80 on Forbes 100 Most powerful women of the world list and maybe not so significant but worth of mentioning - the third most beautiful woman in the world in the 2005 top [...]
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