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news from Denmark - wel_mel_2 - 02-24-2006
Bismillah:
Denmark to host conference to calm cartoon crisis
Published in Staging.canada.com
Indexed on Feb 23, 2006
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark will host a conference next month to promote religious dialogue following the uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday. The government will also give "a significant financial contribution" to a UN program aimed at overcoming prejudice between Islam and the West, and support an Islamic festival in Copenhagen, Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said in a statement. The conference on religious and cultural dialogue will take place in the Danish capital on March 10, ministry officials said.
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source: http://www.staging.canada.com/topics/news/...7fd994e&k=91606
news from Denmark - radiyah - 02-24-2006
Bismillah
Today I was watching al majd channel, there was a progrma that deals with the latest islamic news, the first issue was about the cartoons, the host interviewed one of the muslim scholars who started the campaign to defend the Prophet(PBUH), and he talked about the same issue u r talking about, and he said that all this is not true, and that the danish magazines are attacking the muslim scholars in denmark, and he said non of what u r seeing in the media is true, and that the muslims inside denmark are treated badly. And he said that he tried to talk to some of those persons whom the denmark goverenemnet said that they will be as spokesman to the dialogue, but with no use.
Brother Wae'l, such people it is no use of them, they are showing in media that they are apologizing and that they want to have dialogue, but the truth is totally different. May Allah(SWT) aid those brothers and sisters in denmark and help them in the ordeal they are passing through. Ameeen
Salam
news from Denmark - radiyah - 02-24-2006
Bismillah
Just to prove what I said, read what flemming rose, wrote regarding this issue:
"Since the Sept. 30 publication of the cartoons, we have had a constructive debate in Denmark and Europe about freedom of expression, freedom of religion and respect for immigrants and people's beliefs. Never before have so many Danish Muslims participated in a public dialogue -- in town hall meetings, letters to editors, opinion columns and debates on radio and TV. We have had no anti-Muslim riots, no Muslims fleeing the country and no Muslims committing violence. The radical imams who misinformed their counterparts in the Middle East about the situation for Muslims in Denmark have been marginalized. They no longer speak for the Muslim community in Denmark because moderate Muslims have had the courage to speak out against them. In January, Jyllands-Posten ran three full pages of interviews and photos of moderate Muslims saying no to being represented by the imams. They insist that their faith is compatible with a modern secular democracy.
Only Allah knows who they mean by moderate muslims,
Read his article, he insists on his freedom of speech.
http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=3566642/
This is a dubious action that only Allah(SWT) knows what is thier purpose behind it.
Hasbuna Allah wa ni'ma Al-Wakeel.
Salam
news from Denmark - wel_mel_2 - 02-25-2006
Bismillah:
Assalamo Alikum sister
i've seen the video tape of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark when he responded to Amr Khaled's request of organizing a conference in Denmark next month, not only that but he is calling for more conferences to take place in the Middle East between Muslims and European. you can watch the video here. http://www.amrkhaled.net/multimedia/multimedia750.html
i think what happened those past few weeks is really a good chance for the Muslim Ummah to introduce our prophet to the whole world. Everybody is asking about our prophet pbuh now so in my opinion that we should seize this opportunity and spread his message that he lived for it the entire of his life. Peace be upon him.
salam
Wael.
news from Denmark - radiyah - 02-25-2006
Bismillah
I know that this crisis is came ot our benifit, and that it shows in the media that they are trying to correct their mistake, but it is what i heard on tv live from the clerk himself who launched that issue in the begining.
May Allah assist them in their goal insha'Allah
Salam
news from Denmark - Muslimah - 03-08-2006
Bismillah
as salam alykom
Although a bit of an old article, yet I felt like sharing it to show a certain attitude.
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http://islamonline.net/English/News/2005-1...article04.shtml
Attacking Islam Hinders Integration: Danish Muslims
"This is unacceptable and violates Danish laws," imam Pedersen told IOL.
By Nidal Abu Arif, IOL Correspondent
COPENHAGEN, December 4, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Muslim activist blasted recent anti-Islam remarks by a Danish lawmaker, cautioning that recurrent attacks on their faith by politicians and some media hinder the minority's integration into society.
"The Muslim minority has for sometime been suffering from anti-Islam and anti-Muslim statements which send shockwaves through the minority," Qassim Saeed Ahmed, the media officer of the Copenhagen-based Scandinavian Wakf, told IslamOnline.net.
MP Martin Henriksen of the People's Party has recently described Islam as a "terror network," describing Muslims and their faith as enemies of the Western civilization.
"Such statements infuriate Muslims and stymie their integration into the Danish society," Ahmed said.
He stressed that the Scandinavian Wakf, the main Muslim organization in Denmark, is coordinating with other groups the possibility of taking the lawmaker to court.
Muslims in Denmark are estimated at more than 180,000 or around 3 per cent of population, mostly with a Turkish background.
There are three Muslim members of the Danish parliament; Naser Khader, who hails from Syrian roots, Husain Arac, who has a Turkish background, and Pakistan-born Kamal Qurashi.
Islam is Denmark's second largest religion after the Lutheran Protestant Church, which is actively followed by four-fifths of the country's population of 5.3 million.
Muslim Reverts
Henriksen described Islam as a "terror network," describing Muslims and their faith as enemies of the Western civilization.
Henriksen's attack on Danes who revert to Islam have also triggered rebuke.
"I think such statements would eventually having their toll on Muslim reverts," Ahmed.
The Danish legislator described Danes who embrace Islam as morally inferior, accusing them of betraying their roots and culture by becoming Muslims.
"This is unacceptable and violates Danish laws," Abdul Wahid Pedersen, a Danish-born imam, told IOL.
"Such statements demonstrate utter ignorance of the true teachings of Islam," he added.
Pedersen, who embraced Islam 28 years ago, shrugged out any influence of such hostility on himself.
"But new reverts might be affected."
Both Ahmed and Pedersen agreed that the more the Danes understand Islam, the more they will respect the Muslim faith and its believers.
Repeated
Henriksen's anti-Islam remakes, not his first, were swiftly criticized by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
He stressed that Denmark's cherished freedom of expression is based on respecting the religious beliefs of others.
This was not the first time a member of the right-wing People's Party, the third largest party in parliament with 24 seats, has attacked Islam.
In October, MP Louise Frevert triggered a political storm by describing Muslims as "a cancer".
Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's best selling daily, has also send shockwaves across the minority by published twelve drawings depicting Prophet Muhammad in different settings.
In one of the drawings, the Prophet appeared with a turban shaped like a bomb strapped to his head.
The images, considered blasphemous under Islam, have drawn rebuke from the Muslim minority especially with the paper's adamancy to apologize on the ground of freedom of expression.
news from Denmark - AlShamms - 03-18-2006
Peace....
I know this is an old post, but I came across an article I thought was appropriate to share here.
http://www.muslimwakeup.com/main/archives/...game_r.php#more
The Rage Game, Rethinking Muslim methods
By Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Anyone who hasn’t capitalized on the recent malicious caricature portrayal of the Prophet (SAWS) to express their outrage, promote their organization, get their name in the paper, pontificate the loftiness of Islamic ideals, start a membership drive, do a little political posturing, or to open dialogue, or defend the Prophet (SAWS) has missed their opportunity. The issue has now officially become a non-issue. There was no fatwa or official sounding consensus of scholars declaring cessation of protest. On the contrary, the media puppeteers, knowing what motivates Muslims to action, simply turned off the cameras and directed them to another venue. Muslims are well trained to tailor their activity on the basis of subliminal media directives, and it looks like we were duped again. In other words ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been had. Or as al-Hajj Malik Shabaaz (Malcolm X) used to say, bamboozled, hoodwinked, flimflammed.
Of course there are those in denial and that’s to be expected. After all, Islam is our universal adapter. All we need to do is preface an action with; “this is for the sake of Allah” or, “this is for Islam”, or, “this is in defense of Islam” and it assumes immediate legitimacy irregardless of whether it’s fair, Islamic, prudent, or in agreement with the shariah. Since as Muslims, everything we do is ostensibly in the name of Islam, for Islam, for the Muslims, for Allah, in defense of Islam etc., we are never wrong about anything, ever. Perhaps this is how we justify suicide bombings where the innocent (including women and children) are casualties. If the world was unaware how sensitive Muslims are about our Prophet (SAWS), then our recent response not only erased any ambiguity, it showed how malleable the global Muslim community has become.
By even the most conservative accounts, we’ve shown that we are unpredictable, volatile, rage driven, and that a little name calling and scribbling on a piece of paper can stir us into frenzy. People have been attempting to demean and ridicule the Prophet (SAWS) ever since he became a Prophet. When does that warrant a full scale campaign? What are we going to do the next time someone demeans the prophet of Allah? Why was this incidence singled out for response when there are numerous incidents of negative references to the Prophet Muhammad all over the place? A couple of years ago a well known television evangelist from California did a whole series of lectures in which he vilified the Prophet (SAWS) much more insidiously than this unknown cartoonist (who we now made famous and probably wealthy from his future book deals). Why wasn’t there an outpour of condemnation and rage then?
Since this issue surfaced, the demeaning images of the Prophet (SAWS) have been reprinted in at least 143 newspapers in 56 countries. In defiance of Muslims umbrage, many media publications have stepped up their parody of not only the Prophet himself (SAWS) but the hypersensitive way that we have responded to the issue. There will always be persons an institutions who will do, say, or write something that we can consider an affront to the dignity of the Prophet (SAWS) especially since we are so adept at interpreting words and events as anti-Islamic. Should Muslims therefore assume a perpetual state of protest? On second thought, that might not be the most efficient use of labor. How about we just appoint a group of people whose job will be to hunt down and protest every insult to the Prophet (SAWS). That way the rest of the Muslim world can concentrate on other matters.
Whether we care to admit it or not, we’re slowly evolving into a people so consumed with self righteousness; rage, indiscipline, and intolerance, we cannot admit that we also make mistakes. Let’s grow up folks. Even Adam (AS) admitted his mistake and performed a healthy self assessment. To say that we overreacted to the cartoons is not only an understatement, it also raises questions about who we are and what we stand for. Let me see if I got this right. A three month old negative caricature of the Prophet (SAWS) and we take to the streets by the thousands, protest, throw rocks, issue death threats, tear down buildings, blame whole nations and make our angriest and most menacing facial expressions for the cameras. In the process, scores of Muslims are killed, hundreds more injured, countless man hours are expended, and after the dust settles, there is no measurable tangible gain we can claim from the experience.
Ironically, when Muslims bomb Masaajid while people are worshipping in Iraq; there’s hardly a whimper! We claim that we must protect and defend the honor of the Prophet (SAWS). Meanwhile in America alone, Muslims contribute upwards of twenty million dollars per year towards cable and satellite TV industry which broadcasts every imaginable abomination opposed by the Prophet (SAWS); pornography, blasphemy, gambling, infidelity, deception, gluttony, you name it, cable’s got it. I don’t see any mass rush to cancel our cable subscriptions. Bridges TV a Muslim orientated cable station had to almost beg for the marginal support it receives from the Muslim community.
We clamor for tolerance yet we are notoriously intolerant. Discriminate against a Muslim and there is immediate outrage, yet we unabashedly champion nepotism and discrimination within our own organizations, boards, mosques and Muslim controlled lands. We want inclusion in the world arena yet we cannot stop fighting each other long enough to create our own alternative industries. We protest the killing of Muslims by the Americans, the British, the French, the Israelis, or any other so-called infidel. However, we are curiously silent about Muslims killing each other. It’s like we are saying; hey, don’t kill Muslims! Let us kill each other! Don’t hate Muslims! We have enough hate not only to hate you, but plenty left over to hate ourselves. Don’t disrespect the Prophet (SAWS)! We can do that ourselves by ignoring the standards of civility, fairness justice to which he commanded us.
The Muslim motto is becoming; ‘you disagree with me, therefore you are my enemy’. Some of us take the mantra it a bit further; ‘you disagree with me, therefore I must kill you and your children’. The internet is full of one or another Muslim group, leader or imam condemning the other. Have we simply lost our minds? Somebody turn on the lights! Does it occur to anyone that the Muslims in the world are in a weakened state? There is no doubt that there are many forces confronting the Muslim peoples in this new millennium. Is there some law somewhere that says we have to contribute to our own malaise? Do you think that we can come up with better stratagem our usual blame and complain? We’re turning into complainaholics (okay I made the word up); the world’s crybabies.
Holding the western democracies accountable to standards of law, fairness, civil liberty, and inclusion, has merit. Self serving as it may be, there is some merit there. After all, printing the cartoons in the first place was a criminal offence under sections 140 and 266b of the Danish Criminal Code. However, what is the Muslim standard? Do we have one? Of course the unanimous response to this question is; Islam is our standard! This ladies and gentlemen, is my point. If Islamic law, ethics, protocol or to put is bluntly, Quran and Sunna is the standard by which Muslims must be held accountable, are we then obligated to address errant behavior of Muslims done in the name of Islam? I’m not referring to contentious issues about which there is legitimate scholarly disagreement, or even the triangulated fatwas cloaked in ambiguity. What I’m referring to are the incontrovertible standards of behavior, law, civility, honesty, good character which all Muslims or most of us agree are the foundations of our faith. Does corruption, nepotism, racism, bribery, fratricide, inter-religious sectarianism, spousal abuse, issues which as Muslims we are obligated to address? You darn right they are! Does our failure to collectively enforce the Prophetic standard of conduct in government, community, business, and politic, and lifestyles effect our overall condition and standing in the world?
A vast majority of Muslims in the West get their news from commercial broadcast networks. We only know what the media tells us, and it seems like our collective responses are so scripted and choreographed, we might as well get paid for it and become members of the Screen Actors’ Guild. We have threatened boycotts of western products for years, yet our own division and intolerance of each other, prevents us from coming up with viable alternatives. Every six months or so, some Muslim scholar, organization or politician calls for a boycott of American, British, Israeli or another western countries’ products. . A recent fatwa from a well known Muslim scholar demanded that Muslims boycott all American Products. I guess that means Chinese products too since a lot of the product sold in American are made in China. Aren’t we still supposed to be still boycotting the French because of the Hijab ban? I guess we might as well boycott Turkey too since they also ban hijab. Boycotting Sweden may be tough. I mean, who can compete with IKEA’s prices and ingenuity? By the way, who’s keeping track of the boycott targets? Where is the list? Can they email current Muslim enemy of the week list to my Treo handset? Like to keep track of such things you know.
If the sum of what we are saying is, ‘do not portray Islam in a negative way’. Are we not then responsible for ensuring that we as Muslims do not portray Islam in a negative way? If the answer is no, then we’ve abdicated responsibility for our own behavior, which to do so is unislamic. If the answer is yes, then the negative portrayals of Islam which we ourselves exhibit, i.e. the killing of innocents and non combatants, collective blaming for individual acts, racism within the Muslim community, rampant corruption, Muslim on Muslim killings, the proliferation of Muslim owned liquor stores, the absence of Muslims in the social services arena, inter-religious intolerance, public mudslinging, and unbridled rage are all issues for which we bear responsibility. In other words, if Joe Abdullah straps a bomb to his shoulder, walks into a grocery store, calls out the name of Allah (Allahu Akbar) and indiscriminately blows himself up along with twenty innocent bystanders who were just out doing a little shopping, and the Muslim community says and does nothing about it, any outsider could reasonably conclude that Joe Abdullah’s actions represent Islam. After all, he did it in the name of Islam, and the Muslims didn’t do anything about it. In Islamic law, the acquiescence (iqraar)of the Prophet (SAWS) towards an action, essentially sanctions it. Doesn't this rule apply to the rest of us?
No matter how much we try to avoid taking responsibility for our collective actions and behavior, the issue moral responsibility will always come back to bite us, erode any moral capital we have left, and invoke divine consequences upon us, unless we face up to it. We do after all; have a higher authority (Allah) to answer to. Oh yeah, remember Him? Well He’s got going anywhere, and guess what? He has standards, and rules that govern behavior. We can’t have our cake and eat it too. If we are going to use Islam as our raison de’tre, we must then also accept Islamic standards as governing criteria for our actions.
When was the last time that Muslims came out and apologized for anything, or admitted that we might be wrong about some of our methods, or choice of priorities, or assumed any responsibility for our condition? I know, even hinting that Muslims could be wrong about anything is risky, and possibly hazardous to one’s health. But hey, I’m feeling a little adventurous today. Besides, somebody’s gotta say it. No one besides Allah’s Prophets (ASA) is immune from occasional lapses in judgment, blunders, mistakes, sins or outright stupidity. If the practices of the Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) serve as any standard for Muslims, as Imam Zaid Shakir adeptly elucidated in a recent article, .hatred, anger, revenge, rage, and puritanical oppression, are not always the best catalysts for action. Anger has its place. However, it wasn’t something the Prophet (SAWS) prioritized. On the contrary, he emphasized the contrary. A man came to the Prophet (SAWS) and asked for advice. The Prophet replied: “Do not get angry”. The man returned repeatedly and each time the Prophet replied: “do not get angry”.
Negative emotions tend to take on a life of their own. We have become so accustomed to employing anger as an organizing staple, that many Muslims leaders are now finding that the only platform upon which they can motivate masses of Muslims is by tapping into their reservoir of fury. Find a common enemy, or common target of anger, you’ve got yourself thousands in the streets. Make an appeal for Muslims unity or curbing sectarianism and you get lip service, and photo-ops. Perhaps we’re suffering from post traumatic stress disorder at the loss of the caliphate, or maybe we’re still a little lightheaded from fasting during the month of Ramadan or who knows, maybe we’re bored. I’ m certain that with a billion Muslims on the planet, we can come up with some issues on our own, or sustainable, practical agendas to better our condition with Allah’s help. I guess until that happens, we’ll just have to wait and see what the next issue of the week is going to be. As a parting note, I do have one humble request; next time, can we schedule our response closer to the actual time of the occurrence? I like my issues fresh. And hold the mustard please.
Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad is an Imam and freelance writer on the East Coast USA. He can be reached at imamabulaith@yahoo.com
Like I said, I found the article interesting and thought to share it......
Shamms