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Islam equates killing one innocent person to killing humanity, and prescribes eternal hell for such and action. The Prophet
stood up for the funeral procession of a Jew out of respect for the fact that the deceased was a fellow human being. Certainly
such religion never allows terror for any purpose.
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September 11th will remain a blemish on the pages of human history. Although no Muslims approves of such terrorist acts, the print
and visual media continue to do their best to link Islam with terror so that we will see them as related to one another. I am very
sorry to say that some media outlets are doing this intentionally in order to make all Muslims appear guilty.
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Another part of this is the circumstances in Muslim countries. We must realize that no Muslim country, when considered from the
viewpoint of administrative, legal, and economic matters, exists. What we mean by that phrase is countries with majority Muslim populations.
Many of them have movements for independence and also have to cope with the pressures of artificial and oligarchic governments, poverty,
ignorance, lack of accurate religious knowledge, geographical difficulties, and unjust distribution of wealth; continued intervention from
outside forces who want to block democracy from taking root; easy imports and the consequent non-improvement in domestic production, export,
and economics; and, more than anything else, the role of the media in undermining moral values. All of these problems are confronting the
Muslims and make them appear in an unfavorable light.
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