[Biggest
Islamic
web site in the
U.S.]
P.O. Box 356, Kingsville, MD 21087.
Phone: 410-435-5000.
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shared by editorial committee.
Responses (positive or negative) up to 250 words are welcome.
Names will be withheld on request.
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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
Q & A:
Question from Sis. Qudsia:
Your web site says that both
Qur'an
and
Hadith
are essential to Islam. Then, what is the difference between Qur'an and Hadith?
Answer by
Kaukab Siddique:
The difference between them is the same as that between Allah and
Allah's messenger. The Muslim accepts the Qur'an as Allah's word and
accepts Muhammad, pbuh, as the messenger of Allah. The Hadith is
Muhammad's, pbuh, commentary on and implementation of the message he
received, called the Qur'an, plus a record of his own role as the leader
of the Muslim world for all time to come.
In
America,
Muslims often have a distorted understanding of the Qur'an because they
try to understand it without the Hadith, just as the Christians try to
interpret the
Bible
arbitrarily.
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MOVIE STEREOTYPES MEXICANS as Brutal BANDITS
by a reviewer
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO is running number 4 in the nationwide
popularity listing of movies based on sales. It is a sickening movie,
replete with violence from beginning to end. The violence is there for
the sake of violence. For instance one character kills the cook who cooks
the best pork dish so that there should be none like him! The producers
come up with gruesome ways of committing murder, mutilation and torture,
some of them shown right on the screen.
The violence is combined with
racism
and insults aimed at religion. The Mexicans are, almost without exception,
shown as horrible brutes involved in murder and mayhem as a hobby. One of
the noisiest shootouts take place in a church.
After watching this senseless but extremely popular movie, one is not
surprised that the culture of violence permeates America and is expressed
in the attacks on
Afghanistan
and
Iraq.
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