Islam and Politics *Is Pakistan A Failed State? Asks Ijaz-ul-Haq<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1554> *
Washington-based Fund for Peace, an Independent Research Organization has conducted a worldwide survey to index the failing states wherein Pakistan has been placed at 10th position in the International Community. Our country has been categorized as insecure, unstable and breeding ground for terrorism and spreading extremism that will affect everyone. ... The question that causes a stir is: are we a failed state in the real sense of the word? Good enough, the surveys / findings may prove us so, but is the ground situation really bad enough for us to be bracketed with tiny African states like Chad and Guinea? -- *Ijaz-ul-Haq, *former Minister for Religious Affairs of Pakistan. More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1554> Muslims and Islamophobia *Islam and Terrorism: An Indian Shia Muslim Perspective<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1553> * Today, a series of recent tragic developments have given Islam a bad name, causing many people to imagine that Muslims as a whole are bad people who have no respect whatsoever for human life and peace. It is true that behind these developments as well as the mounting anti-Islamic sentiments the world over are the hands of sinister politicians, personal interests, international politics and so on. Yet, simply to state the problem is not to solve it. We must recognize that many people now see Muslims as their enemies, and that Islamophobia, based on erroneous claims, has rapidly escalated throughout the world. These are among the various problems that we are now suddenly afflicted with, and we must seriously consider possible solutions to them. -- *‘**Khatib-e Akbar’ Maulvi Mirza Muhammad Athar **(Translated from Urdu by** Yoginder Sikand**)* 1 Comments More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1553> Radical Islamism & Jihad *Killing of Non-Combatant Civilians Is Against Islamic Jihad<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1552> * Once, in a battlefield, the Prophet came across the corpse of a woman. Driven to anger, the Prophet exclaimed, ‘What sort of war was she fighting that she was killed?’ Then, he sent a message to the man who was leading the Muslim forces, Hazrat Khalid, instructing him to ensure that henceforth no woman, labourer or slave must be slain in the course of the war (Sunan Abu Daud 2669, Masnad Ahmad 17158, Sahih Bukhari 3015). The Prophet repeatedly forbade the killing of women and children during war, as is mentioned in the books of Hadith. According to one hadith report, the Prophet declared: ‘Do not slay any old, infirm person, nor any child or woman. Do not cheat in matters of war booty. Be kind and charitable. God loves those who are charitable.’ -- *Maulvi Yahya Nomani *(Translated from Urdu by *Yoginder Sikand*) More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1552> Islamic Ideology *Does the Hadith have a Solid Historical Basis?<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1550> * All Muslims, even including those who champion the Hadith, accept the fact that after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, false hadith reports about or attributed to the Prophet Muhammad “mushroomed” into hundreds of thousands. The compilations that were made more than two centuries after the Prophet’s death were done after sorting through mountainous piles of individual hadith reports. Bukhari, for example, made a selection of some seven thousand traditions (including repeated ones) out of reportedly six hundred thousand he found in circulation – roughly one out of every one hundred. That means that he discarded all but a tiny fraction of the hadith in circulation as false. This factor alone leaves open the question whether his selection has been foolproof. -- *Abdur Rab* *Editor’s note*: This is all the more important at a time when Jihadis are stealing our children away from us and turning them into sacrificial goats in their war of supremacy over other sects on the basis of patently concocted and fabricated Ahades. One of the funniest I found in a manifesto of a Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir-based terrorist organization Al-Badr claiming that the Prophet (PBUH) said that Jihad against India is Jihad-e-Afzal, that is greater in importance and reward than even the Jihad against the Meccan enemies of Islam that the Prophet himself fought. But apparently our children, some of them even the most highly educated and intelligent ones are not able to differentiate between a correct and a fabricated Hadees. The moment you ascribe a quotation to the Prophet, it acquires a certain sanctity in the eyes of a devout Muslim. However the knowledge of the fact that authentic compilers like Bukhari and Muslim discarded hundreds of thousands of Ahadees should help Muslims understand that they just cannot attach much sanctity to Ahadees unless they find that they are merely elaborating an injunction of the Quran while maintaining the same spirit inculcated into us through the Quran. 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