oh and l am sorry goph if l suggested you were plural, One is plenty!!!
here is the rest of that reading material...
Wow, now l just wonder what this means?????????????????????????????
here is the rest of that reading material...
The list of relevant Qur'anic citations goes endlessly on -- 109:1-6; 88:21-26; 6:57; 2:62; 57:27; 5:92; 4:90; 49:31 and at least as many more -- including yet another overarching verse which is much revered in the interfaith quest for Abrahamic brotherhood, as follows:
[QUR'AN 5:48, in part] ".....To each among you we have prescribed a Law and an Open Way. If Allah had so willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you in what He hath given you; so strive as in a race in all virtues. The goal of you all is to Allah; it is He who will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute."
In this same vein, even many Afghan hard-liners might be softened by the words of onetime Muslim Brotherhood counselor to Ayman al-Zawahiri of al Qaeda infamy -- Hassan al-Tubari. It was he who in the early 1990s founded the annual Popular Arab and Islamic Conference, traditionally attended by such radical pre-al Qaeda groups as the PLO, Hamas, Egyptian Jihad and Hizballah.
According to al-Tubari: "How can it be imagined by a rational person that Allah, who has compelled none to believe, allows us the right to compel others and force them to believe?..If Almighty Allah has granted us the merit of freedom, he who wants to believe is allowed that right and so too the one who wants to disbelieve." [He then goes on to sharply distinguish peaceful conversion from Islam to forbidden wartime treason against Islam.]
Yet, despite these many Qur'anic evidences and proofs of Abdul Rahman's innocence, the empty charge of "apostasy" is likely to remain alive -- particularly if President Karzai and his supporters fail to cite these in faithful justification of their position.
Focus Instead on The Al Qaeda Apostasy -- UBL's Forbidden "War Against Society"
While both the recent Danish cartoons episode and Mr. Rahman's conversion are understandably offensive to many Muslims, both are mere distractions from the real enemy. Neither comes anywhere near the blasphemous disrespect for and desecration of the Holy Qur'an and of Allah Himself by what should forevermore be called “The al Qaeda Apostasy”.
Against this supremely arrogant attempt by Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and their Servants of Satan followers to redefine Islam in their own murderous image, the Muslim World should enter now into a worldwide consultative "ijtihad" for the purpose of declaring a Truly Holy War (a spiritual Jihad al-Kabir) against this unpardonable al Qaeda insult to the compassionate, merciful, peaceful and just Allah who is repeatedly so described by the Qur'an.
Those who demand that poor, terrorized, exiled Mr. Rahman be executed should explain why they fail to apply this same harsh condemnation to such ruthless al Qaeda-style crimes and mortal sins as
· Wanton killing of innocents and noncombatants, including many peaceful Muslims
· Decapitating the live and desecrating the dead bodies of perceived enemies
· Committing and enticing others to commit suicide for reasons of intimidation
· Fomenting hatred among communities, nations, religions and civilizations
· Ruthless warring against nations in which Islam is freely practiced
· Issuing and inspiring unauthorized and un-Islamic fatwas (religious edicts)
· Using some mosques as weapons depots and battle stations, while destroying others
· Forcing extremist and absolutist versions (and perversions) of Islam on Muslims, when the Qur’an clearly says that there shall be “no compulsion in religion”
· Distorting the word “infidels” to include all Christians, all Jews and many faithful Muslims, as well -- when the Qur’an calls them all “People of the Book” (the Old Testament) and “Sons of Abraham,” and calls Jesus one of Islam’s five main Prophets and even its "Messiah"
· Deliberate misreading, ignoring and perverting of passages of the Qur’an, the Hadith and the Islamic Jurisprudence
If all of these willful acts of Hirabah (forbidden "war against society") and of arrogant istihlal (bin Laden's mortal sin of "playing God" in wholesale desecration of Quranic Islam) do not constitute an Apostasy worthy of death in this life and of Jahannam (Eternal Hellfire) in the hereafter, then there is no such thing.
But, of course, there is such a satanic thing and, by Allah's and the Qur'an's own eternal standards, this is certifiably it.
©2006 Family Security Matters####
A Washington DC-area writer, public speaker and anti-Terrorism strategist, Jim Guirard was longtime Chief of Staff to former US Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long. His new TrueSpeak Institute is devoted to truth-in-language and truth-in-history in public discourse.####
Wow, now l just wonder what this means?????????????????????????????