Suntou,
 
 Your point about Muslims inability to defend Islam reminds me of the time right after 9/11 when the wife of King Abdallah of Jordan was being interviewed on American television and the issue came to Hijab, that sharp thorn in the sides of the enemies of Islam and favourite propaganda tool. Instead of saying that it says in Qur'an to "tell the muslim women to cover themselves" she started talking about how it is just something that is a preference etc. Granted that some of us do not wear hijab, but that definitely does not take away from the fact that it is something that the Qur'an definitely specifically prescribes.
 There are so many examples where this sort of thing is happning and it is largely driven by some people's need to be accepted so they think that they can serve as appologists for the tenets of the deen otherwise they will be seen as not modern and so-called fundamentalists whatever that term means. 
 The one that amazes me the most is the one about reforming Islam which is largely driven by total ignorance about the deen. How, I wonder does one reform the words of Allah (SWT) 
 
 Jabou
   
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  true jabou , the late sheik omar bun jeng stated it clearly in one of his 
lectures ,he remark that ' the current methods of down grading islam is taking 
different forms and shapes .he  went on the west cannot use there faith to 
put any cridible challenge against islam since most of what they are calling 
there faith went through different interfarances so the only methods left at 
there disposal is to use emotional subjects in islamic countries and blow it out 

of context and proportion and who is better to do the job for them ,us 
muslims.the resouces allocated for anti-islamic propaganda is about 75% of 
the total propaganda budget for brainwashing muslims this is mostly women 
issues''. this is actually working ,many muslims even in the gambia today can 
stand up and make comments about islam without any knowledge of what 
they are talking about.
subliminally we are all affected by different propaganda tools.i will forward a 
link of a lecture by an american scholar yasaer quadi about muslims inability to 

defend islam in the modern onslaugt by the west .
an example is ,if one ask a muslim why do you fast ,they will start saying 
fasting make me remember the hungry people accross the globe and so on. 
whilst the simple answer is it is priscripe by god for me to fast .Allah says i 
fast .but we are scared that we will be look upon as mad men.


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