Violent riots against Prophet's teachings: Muslim Imam

[PsychoDad]

Violent riots against Prophet's teachings: Muslim Imam
2/11/2006 10:00:00 AM GMT
http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/world_full_story.asp?service_id=2081

Imam Maulana Shafayat Mohamed, a South Florida Muslim spiritual leader condemned the recent violent riots that broke out all over the world protesting the blasphemous cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), saying that violence is against the holy Prophet's teachings.

Maulana Shafayat, the head of the Darul Uloom Institute and Islamic Training Center in Pembroke Pines, made his remarks during his sermon before Friday’s prayers addressing some 600 worshipers, where he spoke against violence and called on Muslims follow the peaceful example of the Messenger of Allah.

''If the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was alive today, he would never, ever give an instruction to practice that kind of violence,'' he said. ``Why do we cause more harm? We could use the same situation to let the world know who is Muhammad (PBUH).''
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''Sometimes I wonder if my Muslim brothers and sisters who demonstrate this kind of behavior have read the life of the Prophet Muhammad,'' the Imam said.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I am studying the Prophet's (saw) life right now

and I am struck at how forbearing he was towards his detractors.

[Wordie]

2. I'd like to share something I ran across earlier today...

As a Catholic, I am not well-versed on the Koran but a Muslim friend forwarded me a story that is worth reciting, and one I wish the violent protesters, who unwittingly confirmed the underlying premise of the offensive cartoons, had remembered. It goes like this:

The prophet Muhammad had been insulted and abused in the village of Taif. With shoes full of blood and wounds on his body, Muhammad called out to Allah – the Arabic word for God, “O Allah! I complain to You of my weakness, my scarcity of resources and my humiliation before the people. O Most Merciful of those who are merciful. O Lord of the weak and my Lord too. To whom have you entrusted me? To a distant person who receives me with hostility? Or to an enemy to whom you have granted authority over my affair? So long as You are not angry with me, I do not care. Your favor is of more abundance to me.”

In other words, he didn’t care about the insults and beatings so long as God was not angry with him. So much for being an advocate of terrorism.

Ultimately, censorship is wrong but freedom without responsibility can be a disaster. And if you have to hurt someone to make a point, how righteous is that point anyways??

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/26722

I still have much to learn about Islam. But I know there is much more to the religion than we see and hear through the msm, and I remember how my Arab and Iranian friends were treated during the time of the Iranian Hostage crisis...

[plasticwidow]

3. Censorship, Freedom and Responsibility

Ultimately, censorship is wrong but freedom without responsibility can be a disaster. And if you have to hurt someone to make a point, how righteous is that point anyways??

You are very very right and many could learn from those few words. With freedom comes responsibility, not only for one's actions and words, but also responsibility towards one another. And responsibility to maintaining freedom. It can be accomplished many ways, sometimes (from looking upon history) violence was finally resorted to. But in the Quran, Allah (swt) gave specifics and rules of conduct if and when fighting back was imminent. Again, many Muslims I fear do not even know about the life of Muhammad (pbuh) and those who do, some do not look further than the surface and have not learned from the nuances and his conduct as to the real meaning of his life and how it pertains to Islam. If the MSM had bothered to look into and research what they were so quickly to portray in cartoons, and if they had researched in depth what they were reporting, like the media used to to in the old days, this would have never happened. Yes, the news will always have reports that bend towards a certain group or belief, but there used to at least be some respect and certainly indepth research into the subject in question. What the news and reporters have become is a disgrace to their profession. (and I think I went off topic into another one entirely.. my apoligies.. LOL)

Peace my friend!