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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Muslima,

Turn on CNN an watch the coverage of ISIS.  Please report back with your thoughts.

Thanks.[/quote]

So terrible, did you see the news report that ISIS is using a square in Iraq to kill non-muslim men, and decapitate their children (their CHILDREN) and they are mounting the children's heads on sticks in the square.

How utterly and completely evil.  How could anyone do that to children??[/quote]

Terrible. Not defending them but maybe this is more about war and the leaders are manipulating others by misusing religion to carry out their crimes -- using religion like the way Hitler used propaganda to get others to support his efforts to exterminate Jews. In war, there are no rules and evil people commit atrocities against innocent civilians.[/quote]

It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global politics related to empire building and capitalist expansion as well as regional and national struggles revolving around political and economic power and resources. As a Muslim woman living in America, I have seen it & heard it all, so I am totally desensitized to the insults directly at me or Islam. As far as people insulting the Prophet Muhammad saw & Islam, well People physically assaulted him during his life, people threw stones at him, they threw dirty intestines on him whilst he was praying, they threw their dirty garbage on him, they  abused him, they killed his loved ones, poisoned his food, ridiculed him, laughed at him.However, although they hurt him, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) looked beyond his own wounds and forgave them, replying when asked whether to destroy them‘No, do not destroy them, for I hope that Allah will bring out of their offspring people who worship Him alone without associating any partner with Him in worship." What a beautiful excellent response, look at the humiliy, the control. This is the man's values that I follow, and he taught me better than that.

The honor of our messenger saw, the nobility, the respect, the love of our messenger, the status of our messenger saw is not something we give him; it's not something that comes from human beings. It came from the sky. It came from Allah.  Nobody on the earth can take it away.. The Quran has come from the sky. People can burn copies of it, people can make fun of it, people can make pieces of it; it will not insult the Quran; because the Quran is in Laohe Mahfudh ( the preserved tablet in the 7th heaven). It can not be insulted. It is above these insults.

Allah azzawajal took the most insulting things that were said about prophet saw and gave the most intellectual responses in the Quran. This is our religion. Two thirds of the Quran is a conversation with the people who didn’t even believe in it. What was prophet saw doing? Reciting  it to people who don’t even believe. And they were insulting it back, criticizing it back; and there was a discussion happening!

May Allah educate ourselves, our family, our entire Ummah, the way it suppose to be educated. May Allah lift the Ummah from the darkness that it suffers from. May Allah make us of those who can speak the word of truth courageously and be able to engage with each other in civil, respectful disagreement when the time comes. And may Allah make us of those who truly represent the beauty of this Deen to their neighbors and to the world around us.

Ma Salaama (Peace) !
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