Violence, Islam And The Islamic Movement: Can Terrorism Be At All Justified In Islam? -Part 2

Violence, Islam And The Islamic Movement: Can Terrorism Be At All Justified In Islam? -Part 2 By Dr. Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqui (Translated from Urdu by New Age Islam Edit Desk) October 3, 2014 Surah Ash-Shura was revealed in Makkah. The time of its revelation has been fixed as after Hazrat Hamza embracing Islam and before Hazrat Umar converting to Islam. During that period, Muslims were being severely persecuted and tortured. Despite this, they had not got the permission for retaliatory violence as we have indicated above. They got permission for retaliatory violence or war when Muslims had attained the status of a powerful...

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Violence, Islam And The Islamic Movement: Can Terrorism Be At All Justified In Islam? - Part 1

Violence, Islam And The Islamic Movement: Can Terrorism Be At All Justified In Islam? - Part 1 By Dr. Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqui Translated from Urdu by New Age Islam Edit Desk What role does violence play in human life? In what conditions Islam permits violence to take the form of a full-fledged war? In that case, what norms has Islam set for war? When is violence considered terrorism? Does Islam permit terrorism in any specific conditions?  This article has been written with these questions in mind? However, it will not be possible for us to fulfil all the requirements of an academic discussion on any of these questions....

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ISIS Desire To Take 2-Year Old Christian Girl For Sex, And Tell Her Parents, “Give Her To Us. We Will Raise Her.” Her Parents Beg For Mercy, They Then Force Her Father To Kiss Their Shoes In Humiliation

ISIS Desire To Take 2-Year Old Christian Girl For Sex, And Tell Her Parents, “Give Her To Us. We Will Raise Her.” Her Parents Beg For Mercy, They Then Force Her Father To Kiss Their Shoes In Humiliation by Ted on August 15, 2014 in Featured,General By Theodore Shoebat Muslims, all part of ISIS, stole a two year old Christian girl from her parents. When they approached them the ISIS Muslims said, “Give her to us. We will raise her.” Her parents parents begged them, but instead of showing mercy, the ISIS jihadists had the father kiss their shoes in humiliation. Their neighbor, Mariam, who has since fled the violence, shared the heart-shattering story: My neighbour in Erbil has a two-year-old daughter. They said, ‘Give her to us. We will raise her.’ My neighbour cried and pleaded for half...

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A BJP MP in Bastar is washing people's feet and stirring resentment against Christians

A BJP MP in Bastar is washing people's feet and stirring resentment against Christians , when thousands participated in the Run for Unity in New Delhi, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the residents of Madhota village in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district ran around the courts in Jagdalpur to deal with the fallout of the social divide deepened by the visit of the local Bharatiya Janta Party MP. On October 9, on the invitation of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Dinesh Kashyap, the BJP MP from Bastar, came to the village, washed the feet of 35 people and announced their return to the Hindu fold. “We were given a shawl, a sari, a gamcha,” says Sona...

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