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the problem is radicals interpret it that wayExcept the Qur'an does not recommend beheading unbelievers.
Moscow (not the Russian nation) is being discriminatory & not banning anything; this is wrong but pales in comparison to what Christians & other non adherents to the alleged religion of peace undergo in sharia nations. There are also false reports of the religion of peace being banned like in Angola: Angola Denies It Banned Islam, Destroyed Mosques
What any of this has to do with Christianity being violent is beyond me. Although I suppose that some crusade from 600 years ago or more is ranked alongside some jihadist terror bombing from 6 hours ago as equal proof of being violent.
Angola govt denies Islam ban despite mosque closures, attacks
All of Angola's 60 mosques are closed at present, eight mosques have been been dismantled in the past two years and Muslim women are not allowed to wear a veil in public, David Ja, the president of the Muslim Council of Angola, said in an interview from Luanda this week.
Disputed reports that Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos has proclaimed "the end of Islamic influence in Angola" sparked a media feeding frenzy at the weekend.
Ja emphasised that the action against Islamic institutions had been taken under Angolan law, rather than as a result of random religious persecution. Anyone who practised the Islamic faith ran the risk of being found guilty of "qualified disobedience" of Angola's penal code.
The mosques were closed because they did not have the required number of followers – 100 000 – prescribed by the ministry of justice and human rights as necessary for legal recognition as a religion. There are an estimated 90 000 Muslims in Angola.
The destruction of mosques took place in terms of regulations requiring them to secure a licence from municipal authorities.
'Separation between state and religion'
"It is true that we do not have the numbers to meet the legal requirements," Ja sadi. "But the Angolan constitution establishes a separation between the state and religion. That contradicts the government's decision to legislate on matters of faith.
"We intend to challenge the government in the Constitutional Court."
Ja said reports about President Dos Santos's announcement were untrue. Dos Santos, who rarely speaks to the media, has been in Barcelona, Spain, for the past three weeks.
However, another member of the Muslim Council of Angola, Muhammad da Costa, complained that the government is using the daily newspaper, Jornal de Angola, certain leaders of the Catholic Church and the army's chief of staff, Geraldo Nunda, to publicly attack Islam.
The Catholic priests in question had appeared on television to denounce Islam as a threat to Angolan society, he said.
Da Costa also said that his 16-year-old daughter was recently beaten up in the streets of Luanda, and told to leave the country, because she was wearing the veil.
Alleged statements by senior members of the Angolan government sparked a media furore at the weekend. A Nigerian based-paper, Osun Defender, claimed to have based its report of Dos Santos's announcement on an interview with him.
'Closed until further notice'
Also fuelling the uproar was Moroccan publication La Nouvelle Tribune, which quoted Angola's Minister of Culture Rosa Cruz e Silva as saying "the process of legalisation of Islam has not been approved by the ministry of justice and human rights" and that mosques would be closed until further notice.
India Today reported that Silva made the statement at the sixth commission of the Angolan national assembly. It quoted the minister as saying that the ban was necessary because Islam is "contradictory to the customs of Angolan culture".
Some of the reports were clearly exaggerated. One blog claimed that Muslim extremists were becoming a serious problem in Angola and that a Christian was beheaded in attacks by Muslims in the central Angolan town of Andulu.
Ja said there had never been a clash between Muslims and Christians in the country.
It was also revealed that a photograph published by numerous news outlets, which purportedly depicts the minaret of an Angolan mosque being dismantled in October 2012, was used at least as early as January 2008 to illustrate an article about the destruction of Bedouin homes in Israel.
Angolan officials have strongly denied the reports of an official crackdown on Islam. "There is no war in Angola against Islam or any other religion," Manuel Fernando, director of the National Institute for Religious Affairs, part of the culture ministry of culture, said on Wednesday. "There is no official position that targets the destruction or closure of places of worship, whichever they are."
If that had been an authentic hadith then the Prophet would have expelled the Jews and Christians himself. But in fact Jews were still living in Yemen (part of the Arabian Peninsula) until the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Christians have also remained in Yemen continuously.
It may make some sense to reserve the Hijaz for Muslims only, but not the entire Arabic Peninsula.
the hadeeth is authentic. it is in both Al-Bukhari and Muslim
some of the scholars explain your point by saying that the are which is meant is Mecca, Almadina and Al-Yamamah and not the entire Arabian Peninsula.
Moscow (not the Russian nation) is being discriminatory & not banning anything; this is wrong but pales in comparison to what Christians & other non adherents to the alleged religion of peace undergo in sharia nations.
Although I suppose that some crusade from 600 years ago or more is ranked alongside some jihadist terror bombing from 6 hours ago as equal proof of being violent.
because of the radicals. I wouldn't persecute anything but there are things I wouldn't encourage and at the moment every time I see the news Muslims have been causing trouble. I know there is good and bad people involved but until the good overthrows the bad internally in Islam, personally I wouldn't welcome more mosques in my neiborhood. The mosques can open up in your neiborhood.So why would you persecute and oppress a religion on the basis of its radicals?
So you can make more of them into radicals?
Since the Shariah insists that religious minorities living within the realm of Islam (Daru'l-Islam) must be protected, any nation which fails to do so cannot be said to be abiding by the shariah.
If you are comparing the two religions, yes, the Crusades is proof that Christianity is at least, if not more violent than Islam. If, on the other hand you are trying to argue that jihadists are no more violent than the average Christian today, that would of course be absurd. But most Muslims are not jihadists.
Since the Shariah insists that religious minorities living within the realm of Islam (Daru'l-Islam) must be protected, any nation which fails to do so cannot be said to be abiding by the shariah.
If you are comparing the two religions, yes, the Crusades is proof that Christianity is at least, if not more violent than Islam. If, on the other hand you are trying to argue that jihadists are no more violent than the average Christian today, that would of course be absurd. But most Muslims are not jihadists.
because of the radicals. I wouldn't persecute anything but there are things I wouldn't encourage
I know there is good and bad people involved but until the good overthrows the bad internally in Islam, personally I wouldn't welcome more mosques in my neiborhood.
The crusades was a response to the muslim conquests.
As far as protecting minorities under sharia, please research the history of genocide & aggression towards Armenian, Greek, Lebanese, Syrian, Assyrian etc. Christians in the Middle East.
Speaking of jihad in Africa check the Central African Republic:
LOL. Religious minorities in the Islamic world has been my area of specialty. The so-called genocides you refer to were largely the result of the introduction of European nationalism in the 19th century.
I sure wish you knew the difference between reliable sources and hate websites. A few of these are valid but others are not. In any case, none of this compares to the genocides carried out by Christians in Rwanda and the Congo. And are you seriously going to use Burma, where genocide is being committed *against* Muslims as an example?
Here is why you think genocide is being carried out against muslims in Myanmar.
I don't *think* genocide is being carried out against Muslims in Myanmar, I *know* genocide is being carried out against them. So far their actions against Muslims coincide step-by-step with the actions Nazis took against the Jews. The
Rohingya, one of the most impoverished people in the world, were denied their citizenship in 1982 even though they have been there for the last 500 years. They are denied access to public education. The Buddhist monk who features in your Vid never explicitly denies the fact, that he has instigated riots against the Rohingya which resulted in the death of thousands. He encourages economic boycotts against them, encourages the state to prohibit intermarriages, all reminiscent of the Nuremberg Laws and the Kristallnacht. Over a hundred thousand are confined in IDP concentration camps.
As to this monks assertion that this is all bunk generated by Arabs, does he really think that the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. which has taken up the cause of the Rohingya are under the influence of Arabs?
Our Walls Bear Witness: The Plight of Burmaâs Rohingya — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
I never expected the Holocaust museum to be run by juddenrats and dhimmis.
LOL. Religious minorities in the Islamic world has been my area of specialty. The so-called genocides you refer to were largely the result of the introduction of European nationalism in the 19th century.
I sure wish you knew the difference between reliable sources and hate websites. A few of these are valid but others are not. In any case, none of this compares to the genocides carried out by Christians in Rwanda and the Congo. And are you seriously going to use Burma, where genocide is being committed *against* Muslims as an example?
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