What do you think the major barriers for Muslim to understand Islam? And behave like a real Muslim.
salam, Karin
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Raymon www.youregypt.com
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By the way I can't remember when we ever discussed football players...many other subjects generated a lot of interest here, but not that one!
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If you genuinely want to start a discussion about Islam and for it to have a useful effect it would be good idea to post your subject on just one forum and not several, giving some of your own ideas to stimulate the discussion. As people don't yet know you here it is difficult to work out why you are asking your one line question. Positive discussions usually start from positive beginnings too!By the way I can't remember when we ever discussed football players...many other subjects generated a lot of interest here, but not that one!
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I I live in Nova Scotia Canada
Well, isn't that interesting, I thought oh piece of cake i'll do a search and find her a few Mosques in Nova Scotia....not a single on yet.
Hang on Julia....i'll find you something.
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aritime Muslim Academy(4/97)
6225 Chebucto Road
Halifax, NS
B3L 1K7
Phone: 902-429-9067
Email: mma@atcon.com
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ALL,What do you think the major barriers for Muslim to understand Islam? And behave like a real Muslim.
Our inability to submit...to accept the fact that our sole purpose in existence is to wroship Allah Sub7anahu Wata3ala
*edit* oops ..i just realized that's what AMR wrote.
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I am new to this forum and hope to learn as much as I can about Islam and Egypt. I have been studying the Qur'an for about 3 years. Where I live there is a very small % of Muslim's, I have called many numbers and no-one has ever returned my calls from any of the Islamic or Muslim Associations.I want to find a Mosque here and someday find a good Muslim man but have no idea where to start, can anyone help me ? I live in Nova Scotia Canada
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Originally posted by sweetjulia:
I am new to this forum and hope to learn as much as I can about Islam and Egypt. I have been studying the Qur'an for about 3 years. Where I live there is a very small % of Muslim's, I have called many numbers and no-one has ever returned my calls from any of the Islamic or Muslim Associations.I want to find a Mosque here and someday find a good Muslim man but have no idea where to start, can anyone help me ? I live in Nova Scotia Canada
hi sweetjulia,
The muslim scene is virtually inexistant throughout most of NS. Halifax is a little better but the few mosques there are not exactly how one envisions a mosque to be. In terms of architecture, they look indistinguishable from any random community center.
The Maritime Muslim Academy in Halifax, NS is made up of two buildings, one a school and the second a public mosque. As well, there is a weekly prayer service on the Dalhousie campus every Friday.
I also came upon a Center for Islamic development
Mailing Address: 2728-2732 Robie Street,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3K 4P2
Phone: 902-455-1887
General Inquiries E-mail:info@cidonline.org
website: http://www.cidonline.org/index.php
hope this helps and all the best to you,
P.S. if you have further questions, feel free to e-mail me amernak@hotmail.com
rosemary
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we simply lack now the characters which made Muslims the greatest nation before and the first of them is sincerity whether with God or with people and what we are going through now is the same situation that nations before us who were given message from God broke thiere relation with God and thiere destination was the same as weak in almost every field and thiere enemies would get more strong.
Everyone need to start by him/herself first as sometimes here in Egypt I feel everyone is criticizing the rest of the ppl for the same reasons and yet we still do not even start by ourselves.
I do have great hope this will chnge insh'Allah as after hard times usually comes a betetr time when people learn...
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
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Originally posted by sweetjulia:
I want to find a Mosque here and someday find a good Muslim man but have no idea where to start, can anyone help me ? I live in Nova Scotia Canada
When things go wrong in a society, in a way and to a degree that can no longer be denied or concealed, there are various questions that one can ask. A common one particularly in continental Europe yesterday and in the Middle East today, is: ‘Who did this to us?’ The answer to a question thus formulated is usually to place blame on external or domestic scapegoats –foreigners abroad or minorities at home. The Ottomans, faced with the major crisis in their history, asked a different question: ‘What did we do wrong?’
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Raymon www.youregypt.com
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From What Went Wrong for Bernard Lewis:‘What did we do wrong?’
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"Chomsky rejects the conceited misconception articulated by various establishment intellectuals, such as Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis, that there is a clash of civilizations between the West and Islam. The notion that the quest for freedom, tolerance, prosperity, democracy, peaceful coexistence is alien to Muslims or Arab has no real basis. Contrary to the claims of "experts" who assert that the US is hated for its freedom, democracy, and wealth or that Arabs and Muslims are against fast food chains or blue jeans, he sticks to the facts: The resentment of the US in the Muslim and the Arab countries, even among the Westernized elites, stems from its policy of harsh sanctions against Iraq and support for Israel's occupation of Palestinian West Bank and Gaza. The US supported Israel's invasion of Lebanon in which about 17,000 Lebanese and Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed. Chomsky also reminds the readers of US sponsorship of terrorist bombing in Beruit in 1985. The Washington Post revealed in a report published three years later that due to this bombing 80 people were killed and 250 people injured. The Western countries are quite eager to support fundamentalist Islamic regime, such as that of Saudi Arabia, as long as they can secure cooperation from the Arab ruling elites in the exploitation of Middle Eastern oil. The Western countries did not hesitate to give crucial support to the Latin American elite to crush the Catholic Church when some of its priests sided with the poor and the oppressed. "
http://www.counterpunch.org/akram0615.html
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From What Went Wrong for Bernard Lewis:‘What did we do wrong?’
"In a sense, the present book is a false advertisement for filling this unspoken gap, but it builds on nothing but generalities such as the uniquely explosive nature of Muslim rage. To Charlie Rose, Lewis recently said that asking Arafat to give up terrorism is like asking Tiger Woods to give up golf, that Bush was right to paint Iran and Iraq as part of the axis of evil, and that Saddam Hussein will use weapons of mass destruction if he gets them. To NPR's Robert Siegel, Lewis made the claim that Muslims are finding it difficult to engage in the question of what went wrong and why because of lack of free discussion (we should relieve them of that responsibility). RAND analyst Laurent Murawiec recommended on July 10 to the Defense Policy Board that we should take over Saudi Arabian oil fields and assets, because their oil wealth funds extremism around the world--essentially, because we don't agree with their worldview. To Brian Lamb, Lewis rehearsed a mostly similar argument: "get tough" with them. The academic veneer comes off sometimes."
"For Lewis, Muslims have always suffered from a fatal lack of curiosity about the West. Yes, they traveled to Western lands, but when they did so they had a condescending attitude toward the infidels. In contrast, visitors from the West have a long tradition of engaging in fruitful comparison of cultures"
"For Lewis, Muslims have focused on acquiring the superficial trappings of "wealth and power." This is explained by a persistent streak of incuriosity about the Westerner: "Muslims in general had little desire or incentive to venture into Christian Europe, and indeed the doctors of the Holy Law for the most part prohibited such journeys, except for a specific and limited purpose." When the Ottomans did "adopt the European practice of continuous diplomacy through resident missions" they had a hard time doing so, because unlike their European counterparts residing in Eastern lands they did not have a tradition of language scholarship."
http://www.counterpunch.org/shivani0914.html
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From What Went Wrong for Bernard Lewis:‘What did we do wrong?’
"Bernard Lewis has achieved almost iconic status in the West as an expert on Islam and how Muslims think. He wrote an essay for Atlantic magazine in 1990 called “Roots of Muslim Rage,” in which he used the term “clash of civilizations.” That term was picked up later by Harvard University professor, Samuel Huntington. He wrote a book called The Clash of Civilizations. Now you have written a book called The Clash of Fundamentalisms. What do you think about this so-called theory?
The Lewis theory is largely based on a view of a world that I don’t recognize. I grew up in that world and have traveled throughout it. There is rage in the Muslim world, obviously, and the reasons for that rage are the imposition of a settler state in the heart of the Arab world and the attempt to destroy the Palestinians and their identity. I know in the United States this is a sensitive subject, but before the formation and foundation of Israel, there was very little anti-Semitism in the Arab world. Large Jewish communities lived in the Maghrib, North Africa, or in the heart of the Middle East, in Egypt and Iraq. "
http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/Apr2003/ali0403.html
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"Who Is Bernard Lewis?
We will return to the book in a moment, but before that, we need to step back some twenty-five years and examine how Edward Said, in Orientalism , has described this Orientalist tiger's stripes and his cunning ploys at concealment. Edward Said gets to the nub of Lewis's Orientalist project when he writes that his "work purports to be liberal objective scholarship but is in reality very close to being propaganda against his subject material." Lewis's work is "aggressively ideological." He has dedicated his entire career, spanning more than five decades, to a "project to debunk, to whittle down, and to discredit the Arabs and Islam." Said writes:
The core of Lewis's ideology about Islam is that it never changes, and his whole mission is to inform conservative segments of the Jewish reading public, and anyone else who cares to listen, that any political, historical, and scholarly account of Muslims must begin and end with the fact that Muslims are Muslims. "
"This Zionist camp has been led for more than fifty years by Bernard Lewis, who has enjoyed an intimate relationship with power that would be the envy of the most distinguished Orientalists of an earlier generation. He has been strongly supported by a contingent of able lieutenants, whose ranks have included the likes of Elie Kedourie, David Pryce-Jones, Raphael Patai, Daniel Pipes, and Martin Kramer. "
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2003/0629-Bernard.html
For example, I once asked a friend:
Me: Why Egypt is not that much developed?
My Friend: Because we have been in wars all those years.
Me: Israel also has been in wars all those years.
My Friend: Yes but it enjoys support from the West.
What is wrong if people start to claim responsibility for retardation ... it is guaranteed it will be the first step to progress.
Please read the book ... "it is based on true story "
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Raymon www.youregypt.com
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Whatever Lewis thinks
For example, I once asked a friend:
What is wrong if people start to claim responsibility for retardation ... it is guaranteed it will be the first step to progress.
You obviouly did not read any of the links I posted, and you've probably read very little else....and so you must "claim responsibility for" your own "retardation "
I see no contradiction between what I wrote and the text you pasted on Lewis.
Again whatever Lewis believes in about civilizations ... he is still indeed explored very true reasons in his book, especially when he dealt with the history of Ottoman Empire.
Egyptian historians know how bad the 3 centuries of Ottoman rule left the country.
And while the Ottomans were able to change the course, the rest of their subject states did not.
The quality of learning is magnified when you know how to differentiate between what is wrong and what is right, not just reject someone for a part of him that you don’t like.
And did you read the book????????
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homesick,I see no contradiction between what I wrote and the text you pasted on Lewis.
Then you need glasses
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Originally posted by Raymon:The quality of learning is magnified when you know how to differentiate between what is wrong and what is right, not just reject someone for a part of him that you don’t like.
There is nothing right about Bernard Lewis, he always starts by writing about how great Muslims and Arabs were and then follows by how Inherently flawed we are.
He is a great asset the Zionist movement.
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And did you read the book????????
I read enough of his crap, this on is no different.