Just a thought, is Media propagating the right teaching of Muslims or is it debunking the entire theory. Enticing common man to believe the existing truth about the media.
Is it necessary to contemplate on this issues for the Muslims.
What are the different means of fighting this war.
Jihad means strive in the way of Allaah :swt: , but the media portrays this as Holy war.
But this is a brand name, now there is no word such as Mosque the right word is Masjid comes from the root word sajda to prostrate why the name of Masjid is not propagated.
Your insight what medium should be used to clear this evil away.
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Unfortunately we are not sure which line to take either. Our own scholars have not agreed what the word jehaad exactly means. I know there are different meanings and all are true in different situations but why should the outside world be interested in finding out about it. When we ourselves portray a confused picture they will offcourse make use of it. About masjid or mosque....well i am sure you have seen the things that go on in masajid (not all of them but in a lot of them)....from children being sexually abused to children being chained and brutally beaten and it does happen trust me i have seen it with my own eyes......when we allow this to happen then we really cant complain about media portraying a bad picture of masaajid..... Now not for a moment i am saying that media is friendly and un biased towards islam..... it definitely is... But we have to put our house in order first and then ask question of others. If our fellow Muslims go and bomb buidings killing innocent people in the name of jihad then media will obviously question it.......I blame the widespread illiteracy and a hesitance towards acquiring modern sciences in Islamic world......I blame the monarchic islamic rulers of this era and most of all i blame Muslims like you and me who identify the problem but sit on our desks punching keys and then forgetting about everything. Again brother i think we have to get ourselves in order before pointing any fingers
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Agreed with you completely, nice way to get some more insights to this thread. I for the above explanation.
Can someone refute this. By the lemme tell everyone Jihad, comes from root word jahada in urdu/hindi like we proclaim jaddo/jahad that means strive and in Quranic terms it is strive for the will of Allaah.
Like my bro pointed flaws in Muslims for us to come out of such shackles and get the right Islam is also a Jihad again i repeat its Jihad.
But most of them term it wrong Jihad as "**Hold War" **there is not one word in the Quran which describes this.
Rightly said we have to get ourselve in order thats also Jihad, no doubt.
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Visiting websites that attack Islam - People are emailing me websites
that attack Islam. **They say they are from the Jews and that we should send **
this out to everyone and tell them about it.
But is this a good idea to send these sites to everyone? What about the
non-Muslims? Should we tell them to be careful too?
What should be done? Can we visit them at all? Should we warn others?
Answer
As always, before we begin to provide answers, here are some important
points to keep in mind:
- As Muslims we cannot lie about anything, especially about our religion.
- We have original recorded sources of our religion:
A) The Quran
B) Teachings of Muhammad.
**This is a very unique part of Islam, not available in any other ancient **religions. - Sometimes “questions” contain misinformation. We must qualify what it is
that someone is saying against what they are implying. - If you find the answer to your question makes you say, “I didn’t know
that” or “This is good” are you ready to worship your God and your Lord
without and partners?
This what Islam is really all about. The most important subject is the
worship of Almighty God, without any partners or associates or “gods”
besides Almighty God.
**Actually, we have written on this subject a number of times. It is not permissable according to Islam, to visit these sites, nor to mention them, nor to forward emails about them. In fact, this is exactly what the enemies of Islam want us to do. In many cases they pretend to be Muslims or friends of Islam who are supposedly “exposing” these evil websites. However, nothing could be further from the truth. ***The more “hits” (visits) that the site gets, the higher it ***is going to be rated by the search engines and the higher position it will
have on a search. ***This will help increase the chances of these websites to ***come up in a word search for “Islam.”
Do you doubt this?
O.K. Go to www.google.com and then type in the word “Islam” and see how many
total sites there are out there with the word “Islam” in them. Today (Sept.
11, 2003) there are over 9,670,000 websites listed with Google.com and **where do you think the position of one of the worst (Answering Islam) is? **Today it is on page 2.
For three years it has been on page #1. It’s position has changed from 8 to 7 and then up to 6 and even 3rd.
Now, how is it that the enemy of Islam can manage to stay on the page one
for over 3 years in the top ranking position? HOW?
Because Muslims continually send out messages like the one that you just
sent and then they tell everyone to do the same thing.
And it works - for the enemy.
They know it will work and right now they want to get back up on the first
page.
Imagine that out of 9,670,000 websites with the word “Islam” - the deviants
and misguided and enemies of Islam are sharing the highest places.
Why?
Because of Muslims promoting the wrong message.
The number one position usually goes to Ibrahim Shafi at: www.islamworld.net
(because he has the most links with the word “Islam”)
The number two (and sometimes number one) goes to: www.islamicity.com
(because they have so many links to them from their other site and others
sites that link to them).
Number three is usually their other site: www.islam.org (same reasons)
**Then number four is usually the Shiites or NOI (Nation of Islam under Louis **Farrakhan) [notice I DO NOT give the address]
Then number five or six or seven is usually ANSWERING ISLAM - [no address
again]
Islam is having another reason not to promote these sites. You see many
Muslims today do not really know a lot about Islam and they are easily
confused by these people who know how to mistranslate or misrepresent the
verses of the Quran and the hadeeth of the prophet, peace be upon him. As a
result I have a number of emails coming to me from different countries
wherein the youth are asking me about things that have really messed them
up, all of it stemming from these teachings.
For the above reasons you can see why it is haram to give out these sites or
to even visit them.
Yusuf Estes.