Muslim Unity Quotes
Abd al-Rahman Ibn Mohammad. He is generally regarded to be the World’s first social scientist. The largest statue in Tunisia of not of a military leader of king, but of this social scientist. The Arab view in the 14th century was that the Ottomans were a blessing from God—saviors rather than the occupiers as they were viewed by Arabs in the 20th Century.
He repudiated all cases in which a Muslim sold land to a non-Muslim, even though in the Holy Land, Christians, Jews and Muslims have been buying and selling land there to each other for centuries. This has been going on from the time of Christ for the Christians and Jews, and the Muslims from the time of the founding of Islam in the 7th Century. Even Caliph Omar, the authority he cited, allowed and recognized sales of land to Christians and Jews and purchases from them. Rantisi and his followers have actually killed Palestinians who have sold land to Jews.
“Disbelievers” are non Muslims. The “Ummah” is the Arabic term for the Muslim Community as a whole. Note that this fundamentalist religious party is not only against the non-Muslim West, but it also opposes most of the leaders of the Muslim countries of the world on the grounds that they are nationalist and do not represent the Ummah of the Muslim world. So ironically, this party is not only opposed by the democracies of the world (Islamic and not) but also the Muslim Dictatorships such as Syria who arrest all members of the party periodically.
Or Moslems are of one body…. Assist your brother Moslem, whether he be an oppressor or an oppressed.
The new his Islamic concept is it the heart of much of the ambivalence that Muslims have for others and that many non-Islamic nations have for Islam. Normally Mohammed was very insistent are not tolerating oppression. However it is this passage which for many Muslims justifies their support of terrorists and other malevolent forces so long as they are brother Muslims. Counter pressure which exists in other religious groups is there by diminished with Islam. Essentially this is the religious equivalent of “my country right or wrong”. The first sentence of the quotation is one of the main reasons that Islam is viewed by most Muslims as super national. It represents the first and most important identity for a Muslim in contrast to country or even family.
At the time, the Muslim League did not even represent the majority of Muslims of India. . In a number of areas—Kashmir being the most notable—there were a majority of Muslims yet enough of them preferred to remain with India than be part of Pakistan as they were Islamic moderates and did not want to be part of a Muslim Pakistan that might pressure them or force them to a more rigid form of Islam. Also many valued democracy and religious freedom. Some doubted Pakistan's likelihood of thriving in its own and preferred the stability of India. Jinnah always claimed that Pakistan would allow complete freedom of religion, but once Pakistan was created Islamic fundamentalist pressure pushed it more and more to intolerance and religious persecution of other religions. By the 21st century, Pakistan had become one of the most intolerant nations on earth.
