Salam brothers and sisters!!!
Very interesting video :
(Hamza Yusuf Removed)
I just found a great video, it's a lecture in Chicago. The speaker deals with the issue of anti-americanism and anti-patriotism; and the personification of America. America is not Bush nor his government, you can be 100% American and 100% Muslim, you can live buy the Islamic Laws and the American Consitution. I am not American, but the more time I spend time reading all your posts, the more I realize how numerous American muslims are. And when we criticize America, we should not forget that America is full of great people (muslims and non muslims). A lot of people and the media, mistake Ousama Ben Laden, Sadam Hussein, and other "muslim tv stars" for Islam and the rest of us, let's not make the same mistake, let's be smarter than them.
Thank God, I have a job that gives me the opportunity to travel around the world, i went many many times to America, Africa, and European countries, and what i see is different from what i see on tv, just like what we see on Islam on TV is different from what Islam really is.
Let's not accept the binary world Bush and his friends created "Either you're with us or with the terrorists !!!"...
A few years ago, when my president (Jacques Chirac) and my country (this time i can say that the president spoke on behalf of the majority) refused to follow the Bush Administration to invade Iraq, i think that the French were seen either like cowards or worse, we were said to be Sadam's friends, and that we approved of terrorism. I have a lot of American friends, and some of them couldn't understand this decision.
I just want to say that, as muslims, we must have constructive and precised criticism, and MUST NOT use the same strategy our ennemies use against us!!! Just like the man who used to be beaten up by his father must not beat his own son just to be "relieved".
To conclude i also want to say, that the energy and strenght we use to criticize our ennemies, should also be used to criticise ourselves. We can criticize Bush administration and criticize Al Quaida as well, we can strongly condemn the 9/11 attacks as well as the invasion of Iraq.
Allah says it better than anyone :
"And it is thus that We appointed you to be the community of the middle way, so that you might be witnesses before all mankind and the Messenger might be witness before you." (Holy Qurán 2:143)
May ALLAH bless us all and guide us, inshallah
ps: For years, I had been looking for a place where i can express this kind of opinion, and thank God, I think i found it...and i must say, it feels great... HAMDULLILAH
Very interesting video :
(Hamza Yusuf Removed)
I just found a great video, it's a lecture in Chicago. The speaker deals with the issue of anti-americanism and anti-patriotism; and the personification of America. America is not Bush nor his government, you can be 100% American and 100% Muslim, you can live buy the Islamic Laws and the American Consitution. I am not American, but the more time I spend time reading all your posts, the more I realize how numerous American muslims are. And when we criticize America, we should not forget that America is full of great people (muslims and non muslims). A lot of people and the media, mistake Ousama Ben Laden, Sadam Hussein, and other "muslim tv stars" for Islam and the rest of us, let's not make the same mistake, let's be smarter than them.
Thank God, I have a job that gives me the opportunity to travel around the world, i went many many times to America, Africa, and European countries, and what i see is different from what i see on tv, just like what we see on Islam on TV is different from what Islam really is.
Let's not accept the binary world Bush and his friends created "Either you're with us or with the terrorists !!!"...
A few years ago, when my president (Jacques Chirac) and my country (this time i can say that the president spoke on behalf of the majority) refused to follow the Bush Administration to invade Iraq, i think that the French were seen either like cowards or worse, we were said to be Sadam's friends, and that we approved of terrorism. I have a lot of American friends, and some of them couldn't understand this decision.
I just want to say that, as muslims, we must have constructive and precised criticism, and MUST NOT use the same strategy our ennemies use against us!!! Just like the man who used to be beaten up by his father must not beat his own son just to be "relieved".
To conclude i also want to say, that the energy and strenght we use to criticize our ennemies, should also be used to criticise ourselves. We can criticize Bush administration and criticize Al Quaida as well, we can strongly condemn the 9/11 attacks as well as the invasion of Iraq.
Allah says it better than anyone :
"And it is thus that We appointed you to be the community of the middle way, so that you might be witnesses before all mankind and the Messenger might be witness before you." (Holy Qurán 2:143)
May ALLAH bless us all and guide us, inshallah
ps: For years, I had been looking for a place where i can express this kind of opinion, and thank God, I think i found it...and i must say, it feels great... HAMDULLILAH