Comments on: Background on What's Happening with ICNA and the NYC Community

By: m

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:38:39 +0000

Salaam,
The only reason fox is presenting such adverts is because they have to keep the public quiet. If they were to show that they dont support muslims, no one believe the lies fox spreads.

By: Azeem

Azeem — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:20 +0000

@Sulayman F

If you visit the foxnews link you will find all 3 ads which can be clicked on and seen in full size. I commend foxnews for giving us free advertising!

CNN so far, hands down has done the best coverage with real investigative journalism! For the first time ever someone from the Prosecution team has commented on the bogusness of the “maybe alleged un-indicted co-conspirator” list. They also aired Imam Sirajs responses to some of the things attributed to him.

The Post itself mentioned the 1-877-WHY-ISLAM number and http://www.whyislam.org website address!

So it’s all free advertising. Alhumdulilah!

By: abu ubaida

abu ubaida — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:27:46 +0000

****says:
These people (media) are not dumb, they have agenda and their agenda is clearly explained in quran. Allah says:

Their intention is to extinguish Allah.s Light (by blowing) with their mouths: But Allah will complete (the revelation of) His Light, even though the Unbelievers may detest (it). (61:8)

By: Sulayman F

Sulayman F — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:02:41 +0000

Salaam brother,
While this is an important issue, I don’t think linking to the articles is a good idea. It only gives them more pageviews and ad revenue, and if the story is “popular” enough, they will continue with it. Also, google will make it go higher in the rankings, instead of your posting.

By: abuhunain

abuhunain — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:59:32 +0000

As salamu ‘alaikum,

The reason why this is a big problem is because there is an active campaign for Islam to be defined by everyone else except Muslims. This is why everyone in public discourse can speak for Islam except for Muslims. Orientalists, Pundits, Apostates, Hypocrites and Political Analyst tell the world what Islam and Muslims are about.

Some dismiss it but I believe the current propaganda campaign is a significant threat to Muslims. Wherein the effort of dawah is to be extinguished and made to be a “terrorist threat”. The upshot is that the media hype fuels public opinion and gives the administration the fuel to implement the type of policy that is being adopted via religious and racial profiling.

We should note that Muslims in the West have never been ‘real Muslims’. Rather we have been painted with the broad stroke of Middle Eastern conflicts and terrorism. For the West to give legitimacy to the indigenous populations that have lived here peacefully for hundreds of years and congealing in the last 100 hundred years then it blows up the “Clash of Civilizations” thesis. So all Muslims have to be painted with the brush of Al-Qaeda or the Palestinian conflict or Darfur or Iran/Iraq. We are who they say we are!

Now that we move to a more visible posture then it threatens the media-hype machine.

By: ****

**** — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:57:18 +0000

Why is there such a hysteria being cooked up?? There are all sorts of trash being displayed daily. Here you have a simple black and white poster with simple words – and yet its deemed to be vile???
A similar campaign was done in London a while back. Allhamdulillah one person came to Islam as a result of it.