Basicofislam
sister
:salam2: brothers and sisters as the US election date is coming closer i would like to know who r you voting for and why
I dont vote. I don't think anyone of them will help Muslims, we have to start helping ourselves instead of waiting for some Kaffir to get elected to help us.
:salam2: I agree with sister muslimah . We should vote. Cause would you rather have a fundamentalist evangelical christian like sarah palin as a VP. Maybe no one is going to be good for the muslims not mccain or obama. But what i see Mccain and sarah palin will be worse for us.
Salaam Sister,
How can a Muslim (or anyone) vote for an aggressive, vicious, corrupt & hypocritical system? "Involve ourselves for the betterment of their society"?? They kick us out of their cameras, send anti-Islamic DVDs in our mails, and you still want involvement?
Reading your post i can't resist not to ask you:" Don't you think we are already involved in all this you mentioned by living in USA, by working in USA, by spending the money that we earn here from them on our family, education...ect.,.... ??? I Mean, if you really think like this, what's the point for you living here ( if you are here ) ?
And yes, i agree with sister muslimah .
:salam2:
I am not from US, so I don't have to decide, who I would vote for. As some of the brothers prefer not to vote, I want to give my opinion on that. There are two possible reasons not to vote:
1. Candidates are equally bad, so my vote will not change anything.
2. Candidates are equally good, so it does not matter who I vote for.
I am sure most of the brothers actually have reason 1 in mind, when they decide not to vote. However, as one of the candidates is always elected, in practical terms you are actually saying, "they are equally good". Although you think, they are equally bad, by not voting you are implying, they are equally good. I am not saying it is bad not to vote. However, we should be aware of its implications.
:salam2:
Salaam Sister,
No matter who you vote for they'll still continue to kill our innocent brothers & sisters in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and still label us "Al Qaeda" "Taliban" "Terrorist" "Insurgent" "Militant" "Radical" "Extremist"....this is shocking!
How can a Muslim (or anyone) vote for an aggressive, vicious, corrupt & hypocritical system? "Involve ourselves for the betterment of their society"?? They kick us out of their cameras, send anti-Islamic DVDs in our mails, and you still want involvement?
Salaam,
Good analysis, but I believe there is also a 3rd option. It's a win-win situation for Muslims! At the end only Muslims & those who believe in righteousness will be victorious. Truth always prevails & falsehood always gets destroyed. Whatever evil plot each make, they will make a fatal mistake that will cripple & bring the system down. What goes up, must come down. It's the gravity rule. Look at the history of the great empires of the world. This is pre-known to Allah swt.
Suppose you have two candidates for president, for example. Both of them might be not even sympathetic to just Muslim causes, suppose. In most cases that is actually the situation.
However, in terms of relative harm and benefit which is a rule of Shariah it may be the collective wisdom, for example, of Muslim voters that one of them would do even greater harm to Muslim causes than the other. Do you see what I mean?
Well in that case, obviously, the lesser of the two harms, i.e. electing or voting for someone who will do less harm to Muslims obviously would be much better than sitting on the sidelines and just criticizing both and doing nothing about it.
Is it better to try to remove some of that harm than just sitting there and being totally apathetic to what is going on? So yes, in terms of our best judgment, if that is beneficial, yes we can vote, no problem. ..........