Wednesday, February 08, 2006

And They say I am a....

You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.

Postmodernist

63%

Cultural Creative

63%

Romanticist

56%

Existentialist

50%

Idealist

50%

Modernist

50%

Materialist

31%

Fundamentalist

25%

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A Follow Up On The Derogatory Depiction Of God’s Messenger In European Newspapers By Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin

“The Ahlus Sunnah Foundation of Canada" categorically condemns and rejects the degrading depictions of the exalted Prophet Muhammad, (peace be upon him) in French and German newspapers and encourages all law abiding, freedom loving, liberal, open minded and non bigoted individuals: both Muslims and non-Muslims alike, to write to the editorials of both of theses newspapers and condemn their sectarian decision to insult the figure head of one of the world’s largest monotheistic faiths and also condemn their negative depiction of all holy religious and heavenly persons and lobby them to keep such offensive depictions of any religious and or sentimental kind to the privacy of their own homes and not portray them in the public sphere in order to insight, offend and hurt the beliefs, sentiments and emotions of the mass.”

- ASFC Board The Reaction: European Newspapers Condemned
This was the official press release of a moderate Muslim organization, the ASFC, an organization which is working diligently to curb the spread of religious ideological extremism among young and educated Muslims in Canada and throughout the world. It is seemingly rather harsh and yet, quite acceptable to even such an organization which is participating in the war on terror through its own efforts and means. The publishing of the demeaning caricatures of the Prophet Muhammd by the Danish newspapers, republished in various newspapers across Europe, is clearly counter productive in the dialogue of civilizations, the war on terror and the efforts of the West to bridge the gap between us and the East in order to defeat terrorism and Islamic extremism throughout the world. Regardless of their self proclaimed ‘right to blasphemy’ these insensitive European newspapers are clearly not encouraging healthy democratic debate within the mass nor creating a love for the freedoms guaranteed to individuals in the democratic and free West which the Muslim world is now expected to emulate. The negative depiction of a religious holy figure, held in esteem by billions of men and women throughout the world, millions of whom live in the West as well, should not be tolerated, accepted, or condoned by Canadians nor other freedom loving citizens of the world and deserves to be condemned. According to the renowned American non-Muslim sociologist Michael Hart the Prophet Muhammad was arguably the single most influential person in human history. According to Mahatma Gandhi, the Prophet Muhammad’s life itself is proof of his exemplary clemency, generosity, mercy, bravery and kindness. To depict the Prophet in such derogatory caricatures clearly does not befit the liberal media nor does not condemning it befit an open, secular and civilized democratic society. This being said the ASFC condemned the actions of the French and German newspapers who claimed the ‘right to blasphemy’ through such false, offensive and hurtful depictions of a Prophet and kind man who is respected by both Muslim and non Muslim alike.

A lone voice of reason in the middle of rage

Derogatory Depiction Of Holy Prophet Muhammed In European
Newspapers

1- For a criminal activity (of caricaturing Holy Prophet) committed by
a handful of artists and couple of editors of a newspapers, we cannot
punish everyone who has white skin! This is not my opinion, but the law
of Allah! According to a hadith (an approximate narration), a father
will not be punished for crimes of his son, nor a son shall be punished
for the crimes of his father. So for crime of a dozen or so danes, we
arenot justified in kidnapping, targetting, killing danes that live in
muslim domains. It is absolutely unjustified.

2- Danes are under cosh right now for the diplomatic and economical
pressure exerted by western governments (by criticizing danes for
publishing the caricatures) and our governments (severing of relations) and
masses (boycotting danish products) because we have the high moral
ground. We are losing that high moral ground by kidnapping danes, and
burning their embassies!

3- A lot of muslims feel that we are at war with west, and that
justify them with actions such as kidnap/killing of westrens, and burning
their embassies, as its allowable in war. Just to rectify, Prophet (SAW)
has forbidden, FORBIDDEN, to target non-combatants, women and
childrens, religious peoples, and property in war! Only thing halal in combat is
combatant forces and property used as means of war (such as tanks,
cantonements, offices of army etc). AND NOTHING ELSE ! Muslims are
absolutely unjustified in targetting civilians and civilian properties in my
humble opinion.

4- Almost every westren state has laws against promoting hatred,
racism etc etc. And if we are SENSIBLE and SMART, we can get them punished
through their own legal system !!!!!!!! And their isnt any slap bigger
in their face than their owns!

Lastly, but not leastly, VIRTUALLY EVERY MUSLIM FEELS THAT THEY ARE
BEING TARGETTED, AND VICTIMIZED BY FORCES OF WEST, .... in my humble
opinion, if they RESENT this then my friends and muslims brethren GROW
STRONG !!!! GROW STRONG !!!! So that they cannot kick our asses !!!!

Thanks and may Allah bless you all.
Loves
Usman.
Written By Usman Khan (UsmanKhan_77@yahoo.com) at the mailinglist : Student of Faith as a response of the development and incidents happened correlated to the Derogatory Depiction Of Holy Prophet Muhammed In European Newspapers