Judge: Fort Hood suspect can be forcibly shaved

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Re: Judge: Fort Hood suspect can be forcibly shaved

@psyah

Peace All

There were times when Muslims had to migrate, there were times when Muslims had to accept loss, there were times when Muslims formed treaties, there were times when we Muslims defended ourselves, there were times when us Muslims waged the offensive to defend others … each have their own contexts … and each have a basis.

One thing that Muslims have never done - is live in oppression.

All conflicts in Islamic history, that we take our references and template models from, were organised and leadership was in place. Today we do not have such a blessing. It means that we are forced to assume jihad at a level that is within our remit.

In the absence of Ummah leadership the buck falls on the regional leadership in the absence of regional leadership the buck falls on community leadership. If a given community is attacked through its own local leaders a motion to defend themselves is permissible. Just as it would be permissible for a man of his household to use force and damage to a person who comes on to his property to defile its people or the premises itself. There are people who travel to locations looking for communities and households that are being attacked and help defend them … but there are also a lot of wolves in sheep clothing - looking to extend a personal political motive in the guise of helping a people fight a common foe …

The picture that is being painted by the Western media is that this fighting is somehow a network of global jihad - which is nonesense. It is rather a series of separate situations and various groups intervene either helping or claiming to help.

There are in modern wars at least 4 parties involved - it is seldom a 2 sided thing these days. A lot of the sentiments against Jihad (in the fighting - qatl context) stem from the media that have systematically trained our ears to hate it - by naming and shaming the suicide bombers and associating their acts to Jihad. In reality the majority of suicide attacks are symptoms of rage and despiration. That any human can exhibit if pushed to it.

War is also being waged in the minds of people - war has always been a psychological game as well. The media has a role to play in this … to think otherwise is naiive. Yes, it would be good to engage in the war of opinions in this day and age … to help gain support and understanding. Sitting where we are sitting it is hard to know what is really happening - We also know that severely inhumane acts are done by Western forces and “officially recognised” regimes which create the reactions - the reactions that are being portrayed as Jihad - whereas they’re not that at all.

Jihad is about struggle - to use judgement in a situation when the body is in combat mode takes a lot of discipline … The references are countless: Fighting in the Way of Allah (SWT) constitutes:

a) No desire to harm anyone unless necessary
b) Provision to take prisoners with dignity and to provide options for being let go
c) To favour defensive moves over offensive ones - unless it is impossible to do so

How this topic fits with the OP however I don’t know - can someone please explain? I don’t know enough about the judge fort case …

Beautiful post psyah brother:k: