Hamas and the West: A call for justice

'A moment of reflection' series presents shaikh Haitham Al Haddad's guidance and advice, and calls the West to be just towards Hamas. Check out www.islam21c.com for more...

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• palestine
• israel
• shaikh
• haitham
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• haddad
• conflict
• peace
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• britain
• usa

[hafez1978]

subhanallah...i almost cry after seeing this video...jazakallah

[h4ever]

This is spot on - this shiekh is a Palestinian himself -

[MrAlmuazzin]

allahu akbar ya ikhwan qullu sahi

[MacEoin]

Look, I know exactly what orientalist means. I was one of the first people to read Said's book. But Said is coming in for serious criticism now, and 'Orientalism' has been badly misused. Don't you think Muslims stereotype Westerners? By hell they do. All that rubbish about the kuffar and the Jews as demons and only Muslims on the right path. Is that better? Frankly, it's a lot worse. At least we do try to be objective and we do criticize ourselves. Very few Muslims understand self-criticism.

[SOA4ever]

look up the term orientalist and then you would get what I mean?

[MacEoin]

In Islamic universities they teach Islam from an extremely biased Islamic point of view. It happens with all religions. But Western universities have no penalties for challenging traditional views of Islam. You'd find the Christianity taught in theological colleges to be false, Christians would disagree, and secular academics would find you both wrong. Believing you're right doesn't make you right. Please don't call people idiots because they don't say what you like. They might be right.

[SOA4ever]

You have to be careful of where you study religion you know because, at non-Islamic universities they teach the religion from an extremely biased orientalist point of view.

[MacEoin]

I mentioned my degrees simply to make the point that I'm unlikely to be an idiot, as you so sweepingly remarked. I could be shortsighted, unwise, misinformed, and many things. But not an idiot. Some of my degrees are in Arabic, Persian, Islamic History and Islamic Studies, and I've been studying the Middle East for over 40 years. I believe that demands some respect. Being a Muslim doesn't mean you know anything. Perhaps you do, perhaps you don't. As for what's really going on in the world....

[SOA4ever]

Getting a degree means that you can get a fantastic Job no matter how thick you are, all you have to do is bother revising for an exam. May i ask, what have you got 5 degrees in then?

[SOA4ever]

No you don't know what you are talking about. I am a Muslim myself and i fully know of whats REALLY going on the world. Having a few degrees is nothing, it really doesn't make anyone wiser, all having a degree means is that you have a good memory to remember things and implement these things into an exam and you get a bit of paper to say that you're qualified in a field as a result,and it appears as if the worlds economic system depends upon people getting degrees.

[MacEoin]

Dear Sir, that is easy to say, but as the possessor of five degrees and the author of over thirty books, including several on Islamic issues (my field of study), may I suggest that a more rational answer would be in order. I really do know what I'm talking about here, and if you choose to ignore my remarks it can only be because you don't have a clue what Hamas is. Their Covenant calls for genocide in Israel and declares force the only answer to the I/P problem. THAT is both idiotic and evil.

[SOA4ever]

You're an idiot