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Letters
MATRIMONIAL AD IN NEW TREND.
Mr.Siddique:
thanks for your help. I really
appreciate it. I got one call
from Jedda (Saudi
Arabia
) just because of the ad
in your Magazine.
Huma [Houston, Texas]
CRITICAL EVALUATION
You seem to have become obsessed with Parvezis,
owing to their presence on the Internet. You must
realize that the Internet community is itself not
a
typical population. You can't afford to target
your
effort as though the Internet represents the
general
population. Now you have been told clearly they
are
irrelevant. You even seem to inadvertently
acknowledge
this by putting a rider on your last article that
it
can be skipped by non-Muslims.
Also, your style of argument is reminiscent of
orthodoxy, which is why someone decided to
address you as "mullah". I'm not
sure this is useful, when
actually what we need is a very critical attitude
towards what we take as sources of Islam.
Otherwise,
I don't see any point in your remaining a
separate
group from any of the the salafis, JI, hanafis
etc.
Legally minded people can always argue their
corner.
btw same applies to Ahmadis [ Qadianis.] Although
they have a lot of
media
(not just Internet), I
never
met anyone who admitted to being converted from
orthodox islam.
The trend amongst Muslim communities is to become
increasingly literalist and old-fashioned and
polarized. This is the trend which can be
usefully
corrected and criticized, since it affects far
more
people.
Wassalaam,
Shoaib, London, England
APPRECIATION OF DEFENSE OF
HADITH
Assalaamo Alaikum Dear Brother Siddique: With
fear of Allah in my heart I
tell you my eyes got wet when I finished reading
your response. You have very
intellectually put it together. Only a blind of
heart and mind would still
deny that salat is taught by the Holy Prophet
Sallalahu alayhi Wassalam. I
wish I could write like you. May Allah Subhanahu
immensely Bless you and your
family in this world and more importantly in the
world to come. Jazakallah
Khair.
Bint Waleed [Address not given]
WHICH
JAMAAT al-MUSLIMEEN?
Assalamu Alaikum.
I saw your newsletter in the mailing of
[history_islam] but I was not able to
see the items of your newsletter on the site. I
especially wanted to see the
articles about Pervaiz Musharraf, but neither
these were there nor Mullah
Zaeef article or the Munawer Hasan interview.
Please inform me how to check
these and what are their links? As I see through
the contents of the
newsletter, you are providing very good items. If
you send regularly to
[history_islam] your newsletters then it is ok
otherwise include my email
address in your mailing list. One thing more,
what about the prison news? If
there is some reality in it then why to publicize
it?
And what about Jamaatul Muslimeen? Is it not the
same Jamaat whose members
were former Ahle Hadith/Wahhabi? And now they say
them Mushrik? Actually both
of them are same, so I wonder if you are from
them then why you are using
pictures and why you are counting such persons as
Muslims who have no beards?
Regards,
Anjum. [South Africa]
[Editor's note: Jamaat al-Muslimeen is a
U.S.
and
Canada
organization with
some support in Bangladesh,
Nigeria,
Uganda,
Ghana and England. It has
nothing to do with the
Pakistani
group of similar
name or with any sectarian
group. For information and books, go to:
www.newtrendmag.org
Click on java
frames, click on NEWS. There are hundreds of
postings on numerous aspects of
Islamic struggle worldwide.]
PAKISTAN HAS BLOCKED NEW TREND'S WEB SITE
I wonder when we will be stopped from
communicating the TRUTH via the
Internet. If it has happened in Pakistan, it will
happen here soon, as
Pakistan has a U.S. puppet government.
Carolyn [Florida]
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