Jamaat al-Muslimeen International Press Release
{Last reminder for Feb.10 Meeting in Greensboro, NC)
THREE "PICTURES" OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD in NEWSWEEK (feb11 issue)
Qur'an in Arabic published on Cover of Zionist Magazine full of Garbage
We Urge imams in Juma Khutbas to speak against NEWSWEEK's Sacrilege
Dear Muslims: asalamu alaikum
The latest issue of Newsweek (feb.11 issue) contains three purported
pictures
of Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) as well as of Jesus (pbuh).
As you know, Islam strictly forbids the use of images in religion.
There is
no real picture of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
All scholars of Islam stand against the depiction of the Prophet
Muhammad
(pbuh).
There is unanimous agreement on this point.
There are many good reasons for this:
1. Islam wants to close all avenues to worship of human beings.
2. Islam's rejection of pictures is a way of stopping racism and
nationalism.
Muhammad (pbuh) did not belong to any race or nationality in his
religious
capacity as the last messenger of Allah whose example includes the
best of
Abraham, Moses and Jesus (pbut).
2a. Try to imagine the harm the depiction of Jesus (pbuh) as a white
man has
done to psyches of Black and colored people around the globe.
3. Such depictions triviliaze the greatness of Muhammad (pbuh). The
Zionists
have successfully trivialized Jesus (pbuh) in a variety of ways. Now
they
want to trivilialize Muhammad (pbuh) too.
NEWSWEEK also carries the print of a page from the Qur'an in Arabic on
its
cover. This too is sacrilege because Newsweek will be mishandled in all
kinds
of ways and by all kinds of people. Also Newsweek, being the
pro-Zionist
publication it is, contains all kinds of garbage, lies, fabrication,
exploitative and immodest pictures of men and women.
For a Quranic page in the original Arabic to appear on the cover of
such a
magazine is sacrilege.
I urge all the imams to speak against Newsweek this juma. There can be
no
difference of opinion on this issue.
Muslims around the world should protest against Newsweek and stop this
latest
act of cultural imperialism
Sincerely
Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
Ameer of Jamaat al-Muslimeen International
Note: Newsweek appears five days ahead of the date on its cover.
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