Posted on 05/10/2003 1:34:32 AM PDT by kattracks
JEDDAH, 10 May 2003 — The Shariah considers terrorism one of the most heinous crimes, says Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki, secretary-general of the Makkah-based Muslim World League. “Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and the two do not meet at any point,” he said.
“We are saying this not to please anybody but out of our conviction that showing mercy and compassion to our fellow human beings is the hallmark of Islam,” he added. He said it was the duty of the Muslims to provide full support for the government in its fight against terror.
Sheikh Saleh ibn Muhammad Al-Taleb, imam and khateeb of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, also called upon Muslims to mind the noble qualities of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). “The life of the Prophet is full of examples of noble qualities and strong morality,” the imam said while delivering his Friday sermon.
Taleb noted that the Prophet prayed for mercy for the non-believers who had hurt him and his companions, expelled them from their homes, tried to kill them and waged wars against them. “O God, forgive my people for they do not know,” he quoted the Prophet as saying during the battle of Uhed.
The Haram imam emphasized the significance of showing mercy to one’s fellow beings, citing it as one of the outstanding qualities of the Prophet. “The Shariah is benevolence in its totality, in its objectives, applications and means. Islam is the religion of mercy not only in times of peace but also during war,” he said.
Turki’s statement and the imam’s sermon follow the announcement by the Interior Ministry on Wednesday that its security officers foiled major terror attacks in the Kingdom by a 19-member group linked to the Al-Qaeda network.
Meanwhile, Dr. Muhammad ibn Saad Al-Salim, rector of the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, rejected suggestions that his institution was one of the breeding grounds of terrorists. “Our university has no relationship with these people (the terrorists),” he told Okaz newspaper.
“We advise our students to follow the noble teachings of Islam, which calls for tolerance and cooperation for the welfare of all,” the rector said. He added that the university was revising its curriculum regularly to accommodate modern developments. More than 80,000 students have graduated from the university over the past 50 years.
Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News, reported yesterday that Khaled Muhammad Al-Johani, one of the 19 Al-Qaeda suspects was believed to be the gang’s leader.
The Arabic daily said Johani’s picture had appeared on the website of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) among 17 others more than a year ago.
The FBI listed Johani among Al-Qaeda suspects after its agents saw his picture in a video seized from the house of a former Al-Qaeda military commander, Muhammad Atef (Abu Hafs Al-Masri), who was killed in US bombings in Afghanistan in October 2001, the paper said.
Johani, who settled in Afghanistan in 1993 along with a number of Arab Afghans, had visited the Kingdom several times using forged travel documents but did not meet his father. Informed sources told the Arabic daily that Johani might have sneaked into the Kingdom a few months ago.
In a related development, Kuwait denied that Abdul Rahman Jabara, one of the 19 suspects, was a Kuwaiti national. “Jabara is of Iraqi origin and holds Canadian nationality. He was born in Kuwait and lived here for a long time before settling in Afghanistan four years ago,” a Kuwaiti source told the paper.
Ha! It'll be easy to mistake the two from any distance! Considering that the Koran is the word of Allah, and Islam isn't spread by peaceful persuasion but through violence, all too many of these words are in fact incitements to behave in the manner of those called fundamentalists.
I wish............
Like the part about him murdering the two slave girls for singing a song about him?
Like him sticking his crank into a 9 year old?
Interesting "religion."
Again, I provided the critical exception ~ in it's earliest days Arab conquests paved the way for the spread of Islam in the Middle East and North Africa. To a degree only now being discovered by archaeologists, the "conquering armies" were more nearly non-Arab and non-Moslem than otherwise. The Moslem dominated Arab government provided a focus of opportunity for "rogue" Byzantine military personnel (that's a polite way to say it). (I hope folks have noticed that the Syrian and Chaldean Christian churches still exist even though they were right there were the first military "conquests" occurred.)
Actually, this all makes a great deal of sense because Christians, with their history of violence over the last millenium and a half, should have done a really great job at wrapping up the states in North Africa in a short period of time. This would also be in line with the opportunities Christian conquerors gave Moslems to spread their faith throughout Africa in modern times.
Except for the Turkish conquests, and the Mongel conquests before and after them, the Arab Moslems were doing pretty good right up to the 11th century.
It's purpose is similar to the Moses story where Moses is drawn out of the bullrushes of the Nile by a royal princess, his real mother being a Hebrew slave who set him adrift to avoid having him slaughtered in one of those "first born" killings so common in the background of world religions.
The Moses story made Moses legitimately a Hebrew. Fortunately he had his new-found brother Aaron at his right hand to do all the heavy duty preaching in Hebrew (Moses being fluent primarily in Egyptian).
This business of the "recovered brother" or "long lost child" is common in ancient history. The Arabs just did it a different ~ they simply destroyed the reputation and standing of the woman ~ women were of no account among them and they didn't think a thing about it, nor were they concerned with your utterly modern attitude toward womens which they could not have imagined!
The Moslems in Indonesia were probably as concerned about East Timor's history of Communist activism as they were their supposed Christian backgrounds. In fact, the biggest mass murder by Moslems commited against anyone else because of their beliefs happened in Indonesia and the targets were Communists ~ (except for the Hindus in Bali who got in the way ~ many of whom were sociopathic Communist cadre anyway).
For the most part Americans cheered when the Indonesians disposed of the Communists.
I merely pointed to the various Mongel invasions of the West and Middle-East. It didn't matter whether the top dog was a Buddhist, a Christian or a Moslem, the technique the Mongels used was of equal brutality and violence.
Certainly anyone who knows anything about the history of Islam knows of it's interaction of the Mongels from the 600s to the 1500s~!
Your name-calling is symptomatic of your problem in this discussion.
Whoa...hey now! The Easter Bunny is real.
Your response and that of your brother Moslems there (who are trying to discredit everybody on this thread who knows anything about the history of the Middle East) suggests that you are driven mostly by the "myth". So, take a hike back to Egypt or Syria, or wherever it is you hang out, and stuff a sock in it.
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