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"They Should Be Slaughtered" By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | September 18, 2002 If you attended religious services this past weekend, recall, for a moment, the preacher's sermon. Did any portion of his or her message bear some resemblance to this: "Have no mercy on the Jews. No matter where they are, fight them….Wherever you are, kill the Jews, the Americans, . . . and those who stand by them. . . . It is forbidden to befriend Israelis or to aid them. Don't love them or enter into agreement with them. . . . They should be slaughtered. They should...

In The Name of Allah (swt) The Most Gracious The Most Merciful Islam Questions & Answers Supervised by Shaikh: M. S. Al-Munajjid Search: Q.# | Sep 03,2002 Question #8981: She committed adultery when she was a minor – should the hadd punishment be carried out on her? Question: What is the punishment for a girl found guilty of adultery if she has not even reached her puberty that is she is still a minor ?. Answer: Praise be to Allaah. The sin of adultery (zina: unlawful sexual relationship) is a major sin which Allaah has mentioned in conjunction with kufr,...

Rulings on speaking languages other than Arabic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Praise be to Allaah the Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the noblest of the Prophets and Messengers. Allaah has blessed us with a great language which is the language of the Final Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the Noble Book, the like of which was never revealed before and after which no Book will be revealed, for it is the last of the divine Books. In gratitude for this blessing, we should preserve this language and feel proud of it. We should...

“Family Restaurants” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Praise be to Allaah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allaah, Muhammad, and upon his family and companions. In recent years there has developed among some Muslim families and Muslim women a phenomenon which is alien to the conservative Islamic society which seeks to protect women and their modesty. This is the phenomenon of going to “family restaurants” or restaurants which have a “family section.” When we look at this through the lens of sharee’ah and take into account what is actually happening, we will realize that there are a number of serious shar’i...

The true nature of the enmity between the Muslims and the Jews -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Praise be to Allaah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allaah and upon all his family and companions. In these days the Muslim ummah is going through some difficult times and painful circumstances, one of the greatest of which is the Jewish domination over the Muslims in Palestine, where they are killing their men and youth, and terrifying their women and children, burning their mosques and destroying their homes, besieging them and starving them. The way in which the Muslim views events and evaluates...