I am utterly appalled that so many of you are defending the trash in sudan. You say it is everything from media manipulation to the west not understanding the muslim culture. Why not just say the truth instead. What Sudan is doing is wrong and over reactionary. With all DUE respect to those on here I love please someone speak on the subject with some sanity.
2007-11-30 21:48:03 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You mean they have actually started speaking about that subject on R&S? They have been nothing but amazingly silent about the whole affair for the past few days. I keep coming here waiting for SOME response on the issue, because I don't want to form my opinion till I hear the other side of the story.
2007-11-30 21:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
Regardless of how any of us think Sudan has its own countries laws and has ruled on her punishment. As for calling for her execution it is extreme and does not follow Islamic teachings.
However, we have to be reminded that when we are in another country we are subject to the laws and regulations which have been imposed in that country.
Just like anyone else who is not from Britain or USA, they if in that country are subject to prosecution if they break a law of that country even unknowingly.
Now, it is absolutely wrong that the courts have decided on the case and the people are calling for a more strict punishment, the law makers who imposed the sentence were within means of the Sudanese laws. If the people are unhappy then they need to petition the court to change the laws which still will not have an effect on this case since she has been tried and sentenced.
2007-11-30 22:03:16 · answer #2 · answered by je 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Jamus, I am not defending what they are doing. While I understand that cultures react differently in different situations, I simply cannot accept why these people are acting as they are. I have a stuffed bunny from when I was a baby, it's 34 years old now. I love that thing like it's a part of me, but not everyone can relate to that. Whatever I chose to name it was done with nothing but love and respect for both my bunny AND that name. Sadly, not everyone thinks like me, or like you. I personally see nothing wrong with naming a beloved children's toy after a much loved Prophet. Unfortunately, the people in the Sudan feel this was nothing but a worthless toy and naming it was an insult to the Prophet. They can think as they wish, but I personally feel they are VERY VERY wrong. From all that I have read about our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), I seriously doubt that he would have been offended in any way and would probably have blushed a little, realizing that the children who had done this loved him that much.
2007-12-01 12:54:56 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Muslim Council of Britain condemned the action in Sudan.
2007-11-30 21:55:47 · answer #4 · answered by cheir 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
In our country we are blind to much that happens in the rest of the world. We also profess to believe in the separation of Church and State, yet persistently take Christian dogma as the basis of our law. There are many Muslims who believe the severity of Shari'a insurance against moral decline and point to its beneficial effect on lower crime rates. Sudan has faced internal problems for many years. Its present government is not a secular state. The pressure of world opinion needs to be brought to bear there, even as it needs to be brought to bear against the outrages of the United States, no government has the "right" to the violation of the person on whatever grounds. There are many Muslims around the world with better understanding to speak to their brothers intelligently. They have an effect. Those in the Islamic schools of Egypt have had a great moderating presence with these issues.
2007-12-01 03:41:46 · answer #5 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As salaamu 'alaikym, my illogical and very biased, as well as obvoiusly untraveld Western friend.
Insha'Allah, you, like so many other persons here in the West, have chosen to judge a non-Westrern nation by Western standards without every realizing that should the non-Western world judge us from their stand point, we here in the West, our general society, will look much, much worse.
Insha'Allah, the teasher should have taken the time to have learned something about the religion, culture and customs of the Sudanese prior to going there to live and teach. She should have learned something about the laws of that nation as ignorance of the law is not excuse.
Insha'Allah, the adminsitration of the school where she was working should have provided sensitivity training to its staff regarding the laws, customs, culture and practices of the Sudanese people but it failed to do so as it assumed that because it was a "Christian private school" it was somehow above the necessity of having to respect the people of the nation it was in.
Are you advocating that we allow all foreign visitors to this nation to routinely and without any penalty break our laws and disrespect our nation and its people? I ask because you are advocating that people who visit or move to the Sudan be allowed to do so.
You are also advocating that the Western ideals are the only correct ideals and that every other such is a form of insanity. Have you taken an objective look at the values and morals (or, rather the lack thereof ) that the West is broadcasting and selling to the rest of the world? Is such what you would call "sane"?
Insha'Allah, hopefully, even the most opinionated and biased individual, even the most ill-informed and the least knowledgable must sober up enough to look at his or her situation objectively and realistically, seeking to see both "sides of the coin" and not just look at his or her views as automatically being correct.
Insha'Allah, eventually and hopefully, even the most illogical person must look at what he is proposeing or espousing so as to see if it truly is logical or is just a mental ship listing one sidedly as it sink in the sea of intellectualism.
Of course, it is very helpful if ones mind and brain are not effeced by any foreign substances and if one has worked so as to develop ones mental powers. Such a gift wasted is truly a loss.
Ma'a salaam
2007-11-30 22:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by Big Bill 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It is wrong and over reactionary, but at the same time there has been overly manipulated by the media.
It has nothing to do with the "Muslim culture" and has everything to do with the Sudanese culture. It is the product of years of backward beliefs and oppression caused by their poverty and hardship.
Islam has nothing to do with it, on that you have to believe me.
2007-11-30 22:02:54 · answer #7 · answered by Blue 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Why might he be disillusioned? have not got faith the media's representation of all muslims being fanged monsters who fly into religious rages all the time....that stuff is so a tactics from the certainty. confer with him, you would be shocked.
2016-09-30 09:04:14 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You speak the truth but who wants to speak out in truth agains their own people.
2007-11-30 21:51:34 · answer #9 · answered by Carl F 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
what they did was wrong!...but we can't make everyone do the right thing can we??.....some of them are brain washed..they make Islam look horrible cause they themselves do not know what's the meaning of Islam!!!!
~thank you and peace~
RoChEr
2007-12-01 01:48:45 · answer #10 · answered by RoChEr 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋