Muslim Scholars and Leaders Move Towards The World Peace Religion

A sixty five year old woman named Nancy smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 45 years. Then one day she began to cough up blood and suffer chest pains which were dull, aching and persistent. Her family doctor sent her for chest X-Rays and the radiologist detected a tumor in her right lung. The biopsy showed that it was cancer. Nancy was prepared for surgery. The surgeon came into the room, cut open Nancy's chest, looked at the golf ball sized tumor, and said, "Well, other than this tumor, she looks fine." The surgeon did not cut out the tumor, he just told his assistant to sew her up. Six weeks later Nancy died.

Last Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007, 138 leading Muslim scholars, political and religious leaders from around the world sent an olive branch of peace, a 29 page letter to Pope Benedict XVI, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and all Christian leaders worldwide. At the end of the letter the Muslim scholars and leaders refer Pope Benedict XVI to their website, "The Offical Website of A Common Word". The letter can be read and downloaded at the website, along with letters of congratulations from Christian and Jewish scholars and politicians, including Tony Blair.

On the top right of the homepage it says "Link!" If Pope Benedict XVI uses his Holy Mouse to click on the word "Link!" he will find a request to add the link and banner from the Muslim scolars' website to the official website of The Holy See, along with the HTML code for the banner. The present Page Rank of "A Common Word" is zero but with world wide mainstream coverage of the Muslim scholars' letter and religious and educational institutions and individuals world wide now linking in, it will not be long before the Muslim scholars' website surpasses the Vatican's Page Rank of 8. At this point Pope Benedict XVI is sure to issue a Papal Bull directing every Catholic to link to his website. The advertising potential is astronomical.

Last Friday, Oct. 12, 2007, the top Vatican official in charge of Catholic relations with Islam and all other religions, Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran told Vatican Radio that he found the letter "very interesting", in part because it was signed by both Shiite and Sunni Muslims and made numerous references to the Old Testament, New Testament and the Koran, which are all followed by Islam. Cardinal Tauran said that he welcomed the fact that the letter was not controversial, argumentative or disputatious. Unfortunately, this is where the Muslim scholars' letter falls on its face and misses a glorious opportunity to heal the rift between Christianity, Islam and Judaism now leading us all into nuclear world war III, the Apocalypse.

The Muslim scholars, political and religious leaders' letter states at the bottom of page 15 and the top of page 16, that if the Muslim and Christian worlds do not now resolve their differences, "The very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake." The Muslim scholars' solution for making peace between Christianity, Islam and Judaism is to unite under a common word, "Love", and the two most important commandments in all three religions, "Love God" and "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."

The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion http://www.thetempleoflove.com makes peace among and unites Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Everyone else by tying them together with their common threads and resolving all of their differences once and for all. The glaring problem with the Muslim scholars' letter to the Christian leaders is that it makes no mention of the differences between the religions let alone resolving them. We are talking about the countless commandments in the Bibles for the members of Christianity, Islam and Judaism to kill all of the innocent men, women and children outside of their group because they are all devils.

The Koran reads "Make War on the Christians and Jews and infidels for great eternal rewards." (Sura Chapter 9:5, 29-30, Sura 56). The Christian Bible says that when the Messiah of Islam and Christianity returns, Jesus Christ, he will command his followers and angels to throw all of the non believers into the fire, because they are all devils. (Matt. 13:36-43). Pslam 2 of the Old Testament of Judaism, now followed by Christianity and Islam too says that the Messiah will smash all of the non believers like a potter's vessel with a rod of iron into a million pieces and conquer the world for each religion. Christianity, Islam and Judaism and their Holy Bibles command genocide and they are the root cause of the West's "War on Terror" aka "The War Against the Muslims", the Muslim worldwide Jihad against all non Muslims, and the obstacle to peace in the Middle East, and as long as these religions exist there will never be peace on earth, according to their own God of Mount Sinai in their own Holy bibles. God of Mount Sinai commands that these three religions now be purified down to their magnificent essence in order to save life on earth from extinction and to lead the people of earth to everlasting peace on earth.

The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion's 10 page website is the part of the three Bibles which your religious leaders will never teach you because their own God's plan for everlating world peace in their own Holy Bibles calls for an end to Christianity, Islam and Judaism and your religious leaders' power and control over you and the vast fortunes they are making off of you.

In the 3 Holy Bibles, God of Mount Sinai aka God the Father, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, Allah, Yehovah, Elohim says through every single Biblical Prophet in the 3 Bibles that the way to everlasting peace on Earth is to purify Christianity, Islam and Judaism down to their essences, belief in God, belief that God of Mount Sinai is that One God, belief that God of Mount Sinai Himself carved His Word, the 10 commandments in stone Himself, and above all for the people to follow and obey God's word, "10ve", the 10 commandments. This new religion is The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion. According to God of Mount Sinai the three Holy Bibles must now be thrown into the fire, except for the two tablets, before these bibles are leading us all into the fires of Nuclear World War three. According to God of Mount Sinai these three holy bibles are the cancerous tumor about to kill us all, and God says in the Bibles that the tumor must now be cut out and set aside.

God promised that your surgeon, your Messiah would command his angels to do this upon his return. Your religious leaders will never allow it. Now it is up to the congregants of every Synagogue, Church and Mosque to do this to save life on earth from extinction, and change the name of your place of worship today to "The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion". The alternative is to stay the course, and allow your religious leaders and Holy Bibles to lead you all into extinction in the Apocalypse.

Your Muslim and Christian leaders are all following the book of Revelations, which promises that in nuclear world war three, the apocalypse, the earth and Heaven will be destroyed, and then a new earth and a new Heaven will appear and a new Jerusalem will descend from the sky. The New Testament was written in Greek by Greek authors. What your religious leaders will never tell you is that the Revelations story of Prince Jesus flying down from Heaven on his flying horse to defeat the snake, goat, lion Beast, Satan, is a dead on plagiarism of the Greek Myth of Prince Bellerophon on his flying horse Pegasus slaying the snake, goat, lion Chimera. God in your Holy Bibles said that your bible writers were breaking the third commandment and taking his name in vain to ceate your bibles, by signing their own stories "God". God said, "They have prophesied falsehood and lying divination; they say, 'Says the Lord', when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they wait for the fulfillment of their word!" (Ezekiel 13:6). The prophets Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Malachi were there and saw the bible writers doing this endlessly, and they warned us of the catastrophic consequences now upon us all.

God of Mount Sinai in the three Holy bibles called your bible writers a bunch of ignorant confused drunks who were signing their own stories, "God", and prophesying by Baal, Beelzebub, Satan, (Jeremiah 2:8) and creating for the people a shelter of lies and falsehoods which would cause the people to go and fall backwards and be ensnared and taken and burn in the fire. (Isaiah 28:9-15, Matt. 23).

God promised to send a Messiah, a Messenger, to take great rocks of hail and tremendous windstorms and wash away your Holy Bibles forever, all except for the two tablets, in order to create everlasting peace on earth. The bottom line is that this plan works, and the map of your religions leads to the people of earth soon burning alive in the fires of nuclear world war three, waiting for a Greek cartoon character to come and save them. Save youselves, you have the ability. The way to everlasting peace on earth now is for 200 people to stand up today at the United Nations and agree to stop fighting permanently. It's that simple. Use your own minds now, and change course before we all shortly pass the point of no return. The Muslim scholars and leaders buzzed all around the net without scoring and they are to be thanked and congratulated for bringing us this far in a historic and unprecedented move towards peace, but now let us finally kick the ball into the net. Link exchange requests to the Pope; what's next, spamming Oliver Cromwell?

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Building Institutions - A Path To Racial And Social Integration For Muslims In The American Society

Building Institutions - a path to racial and social integration for Muslims in the American Society

Institution - An established organization or corporation (as a bank or university) especially of a public character

Suddenly, in fall of 2005 the Muslim community in the blue color city of Birmingham found itself at odds with its non Muslim neighbors. This came as a big surprise to many, as most of the Muslims living in this city were 2nd or 3rd generation British born and raised. They paid taxes, lived and worked next to there non Muslim neighbors and sent there children to public schools. So why after living in a country and in a community for decades did they find themselves alienated and targeted? One can spend many hours debating over the evidence, but the one fact remains, it happened, and It shouldn't have surprised us at all; as mere residency in a society is not necessarily a sign of Cultural or Social integration. I believe that in order for a sub community to fully integrate itself; it must at least perceive to have a stake in the overall process and the ability to influence it. The creation of local institutions facilitates and helps communities organize in an influential manner. These give the community a sense of ownership and stake, allowing its members to participate and influence the overall agenda. To be effective these institutions need to be diverse and varied; spanning cultural, financial, religious and political boundaries.

For the American Muslim community, the current landscape is fairly bleak. There are very few world class Muslim institutions, and the ones that do exist, provide the most fundamental and rudimentary services to its constituents. The existing infrastructure consists of mostly religious hubs such as Mosques and Islamic schools; these are the first to mushroom in any new community and help regulate the basic needs of its members, e.g. prayers, marriages, religious education, funeral services etc. In all major US metro areas these have flourished and service levels have improved over time.

Over the last decade the Islamic education sector has seen rapid growth, this is largely due to significant demand for quality primary education by mostly professional and affluent Muslim parents. Larger schools, focusing not just on primary but secondary and High School education are also starting to appear at an accelerated pace throughout major metropolitan suburbs. In principal these schools are structured similar to the Catholic school system and focus on teaching standard curriculum with additional focus on Islamic education. The growing economic disparity between the urban lower middle class and there fellow suburban dwelling professionals is alarming, and as a result, the larger more established schools find themselves catering mostly to the affluent Muslims; leaving the urban families with limited options.

Although a few Muslim Universities and Colleges exist, they are still very few and far apart. On this front, some geographic areas have done better than others, for example the Chicagoland community has made progress with the establishment and rapid growth of East West University. An institution started over two decades ago now boasting enrollment of close to 2000 students, mostly non Muslims. Offering Liberal Arts and Engineering curriculum, East West University is an excellent example of a simple idea turning into a local institution, serving not only its original constituents, but a much larger community by evolving into a seamless local institution. Even with these sporadic successes a tremendous amount of work still needs to be done on the education front in other locations and communities.

Living in the United States it is difficult to go to a US city, town or village without running into a Muslim doctor. Associations such as AAPNA and others boast thousands of members, all Muslim doctors. Even with these large numbers, it is hard to find a single reputable large medical institution started or run by members of the Muslim medical community. This situation is counter intuitive; with so many Muslim doctors shouldn't we have an abundance of institutions? I believe in this scenario the dilemma exists due to the lack of management expertise amongst Muslim doctors. Doctors are arguably the most affluent Muslim community in the US and have the opportunity to take a leadership role in the institution building process. So far they have dropped the ball on this front. Organizations such as AAPNA, with an established member community and access to funds should prioritize efforts to help identify and support candidates who can be developed into business leaders via education and training.

For any community to flourish the availability of capital for consumer and commercial purposes is paramount; for this reason alone the lack of Islamic financial institutions in the US is of significant concern; having institutions that serve the special needs of the Muslim community by providing Shariah compliant financial products and offerings is a necessary step forward. Activities such as home buying and business investments increase an individual's stake in the community, and this impact is almost more important than all others; this in my opinion is the seed that allows individuals to take an interest in there surrounding environment and participate in the community at a heightened level. Development of Islamic financial institutions would allow Muslims in America to be on a path of integration and participation in the American society. A tremendous amount of progress has taken place in the Islamic finance arena and countries such as Malaysia, Bahrain, U.A.E and Pakistan are at the forefront of this effort.

It is estimated that there are between 4-7 Million Muslims living in the United States (depending on whose numbers you believe), but unfortunately with the exception of a few first efforts, Islamic finance is still in its infancy. In order to avoid paying interest many successful Muslim families don't participate in homeownership and other interest related activities. The ones that forgo this hesitancy usually do so with feelings of guilt. Over the last five years Guidance Financial has started offering home mortgage products to the US Muslim community. The effort has been met with a fair amount of success and is a good start, but consumers will benefit from additional players entering the market.

Unfortunately, on the commercial front, Shariah compliant lending institutions are no where to be found. There are some local institutions such as Devon Bank in Chicago and University Bank in Michigan that are starting to dabble with commercial lending, but being small community banks they are limited in there resources. Additionally, the absence of a Secondary market to resell these loans as Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) threatens to choke any growth in this effort. The lack of a developed Islamic secondary market forces many institutions to carry the loans for the duration of the term, which creates a liquidity problem. Even though some examples exist of portfolio sales to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (Government funded Secondary markets for conventional/interest baring loans), the development and creation of a more permanent secondary market for Islamic/Shariah compliant loans is essential for any future growth in the US. This one activity alone could breathe new life into the Islamic financial markets and would most likely embolden other institutions to accelerate product development efforts.

Islamic finance is currently estimated to be a $400 Billion business worldwide, and according to the UK-based Islamic Finance Information Service $16.9 billion in Islamic bonds (Sukuks), were issued in the first 10 months of 2006 - 43 percent more than all Islamic bonds issued in 2005. The success of Shariah compliant financing instruments in the UK serves to strengthen and validate the market worldwide. For the US market the creation of additional institutions and products is a necessity, Credit Cards, Bonds (Sukuks) Auto financing, equipment and inventory financing and construction loans are some of the areas that need development and investment.

Middle East based Investment banks and Private Equity companies have also started to open offices in the US, Arcapita (owners of Church's Chicken and Caribou coffee chains), Kingdom Holdings and Unicorn Investment Bank are examples of such companies. Some of these institutions especially Kingdom Holdings has been involved in taking positions and doing deals for over 10 years, but these overseas companies do little to engage the local communities in the US and therefore tend to have very little impact on the local landscape. Any future dialogue leading to collaboration at the local level could benefit both sides.

As the above mentioned examples illustrate, some preliminary work is being done to build institutions by the Muslim community, but unless the urgency is felt on a broader scale, these efforts will continue to be "test cases" and "one off" scenarios. The diverse Muslim community in the US is comprised of entrepreneurs from all over the world and many of the community members are actively involved via there jobs in helping others build and run the same kind of institutions. There is certainly no lack of expertise; but I believe a lack of inspiration and guidance; with community support and guidance the Muslim intellectuals and entrepreneurs could certainly create world class institutions, but only if they have the courage to dare.

That is why the Muslim community in the U.S must learn to recognize there superstars and engage actively and collectively to develop them into leaders. As the events in Birmingham, England indicate, it is paramount for the Muslim community in the US to avoid a similar fate, if they succeed, they will redefine there role in history and if they fail, history will surely define them.

As we sail thru the year 2007 it is encouraging to see sparks of innovation and leadership all over the country, and there is some hope for the future, but it is a bit indulgent for the Muslim Americans to believe that there future generations will be able to fulfill their dreams. I fear that if Muslim professionals don't set examples now, and fail to create leadership icons today, they will also fail to inspire the future generations

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Islamic Books on Parenting

First time parents in general have a hard time figuring out a number of things where their children are concerned. Fears about raising them properly in accordance to Islamic teachings, teaching them morals and values, educating them about kindness towards others and other common aspects of Islam can be quite intense for a number of parents. In the older times when joint family systems were prevalent in the Middle Eastern and Asian cultures, these fears were quelled by the advice and help of the elders of the family, who were always around to help out and aid the new parents. Today with independent families and working mothers, it has become essential to get aid from the useful Islamic books available about parenting techniques to raise a healthy and happy little Muslim.

Many great scholars have imparted useful parenting tips and common practices with the help of informative Islamic books which help new parents to learn about various aspects of child rearing in light f Shari'ah and Sunnah. A few of the prevailing Islamic books include:

Bringing up Children in Islam: Written by Shaykh Abdullah Naasih Ulwaan and published by Darul Ishaat, this is one of the popular Islamic books with informative and helpful ways to raising good Muslim children. It is an adaptation of the popular Arabic book "Tarbiyat al-awlad fi al-Islam" and covers in depth almost all facets of the subject in a simple and concise way.

Raising Children in the Light of the Qur'aan & Sunnah: By the author Abdus-Salaam bin Abdillaah As - Sulaymaan, this is one the best Islamic books, which contain a wealth of information about bringing up your child according to the teachings of Islam. This book discusses parenting ways from the time a baby is born up to the adolescent ages. Written in a simple and easy to understand way, this book presents evidence from the Quran and Sunnah about the best child rearing techniques in Islam.

The Greatest Gift: A Guide to Parenting: For Muslims living in the Western society and facing issues about raising their children in light of Islam in circumstances which are by far the most appropriate, this is another one of the great Islamic books which helps the parents to understand the issues they are facing in a complete way. The author Muhammad Abdul Bari tries to help the parents experiencing desperation in raising good Muslims in this detailed book.

These are just a few of the Islamic books which are being used by Muslim parents all over the world to help raise better Muslims which become an essential part of the Islamic community.

Sohail Khan works for Islamic Impressions which specializes in retail and wholesale products for the Islamic market and stocks a wide range of Islamic books on all subjects to buy online or in our stores in London, Birmingham, Denmark and Trinidad.

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Islamic Gifts For Graduation

The end of the month of May marks the beginning of a new era of their lives for thousands of students graduating from schools and universities. Graduates of high schools further pursue their dream educations at the universities, whereas the college graduates step out in the real world and follow their careers of choice. Students feel high levels of excitement, achievement as well as apprehensions about the phase of life they are about to embark on, but at the same time, they want to celebrate this momentous occasion of their lives with their families and friends.

Proud parents throw grand graduation parties for their children which allow all their friends and relatives to give nice and useful Islamic gifts to the new graduates. These Islamic gifts are not only thoughtful gestures from the giver, but also hold a special place in the receiver's heart as they mark the start of a new phase of their life.

It is vital on the gift givers part to select Islamic gifts for the new graduate which are not only caring but can also be a significant part of their upcoming life. Certain Islamic gifts which make great graduation presents include Islamic books and CD's, which teach the youngsters free from the heavy school work loads about the fundamental principles of Islam, or give them in depth knowledge about certain Islamic subject matters.

A nicely bound Quran or their digital counterparts can also make suitable Islamic gifts for graduations, as they are considered to bring blessing to the receiver in addition to providing them their own personal copy of the Holy book. With technology advancements, most people opt to go for a digital version of the Quran, which are available in a variety of price ranges, as they can be conveniently recited at any time.

Graduation Islamic gifts can also comprise of personalized plaques and plates with Quranic verses inscribed on them, Islamic jewelery articles, blankets and throws for the graduates with a Holy emblem or names embroidered on them, leather portfolios and daily planners to assist in their upcoming careers, particularly for those graduates moving on to the professional phase of their lives.

So it is important to take time out to buy something which is considerate and useful for the new graduate before heading out to the next graduation party. These Islamic gifts will not only be special to them, but the effort you put into buying something will be highly appreciated by the receiver!

Sohail Khan works for Islamic Impressions which specializes in retail and wholesale products for the Islamic market and stocks a wide range of ideal Islamic gifts to buy online or in our stores in London, Birmingham, Denmark and Trinidad.

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