Roudy
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Piece, brotha. LOLMany Muslim theologians and intellectuals maintain that Islam does not approve of nationalism. Islam, they maintain, is an international religion and cannot be confined to any territorial limits. The noted poet from India Muhammad Iqbal said in one of his verses that what is nation (watan) is Islam's shroud (kafan).
What Iqbal means to say is that nationhood is death of Islam. Muslims constitute an ummah and ummah cannot be confined to any territorial limit. However, Maulana Husain Ahmed Madani, the eminent Islamic theologian from India, maintained that nation is a geographical concept whereas ummah is a religious or spiritual concept. Muslims are ummah and are, in that sense, an international community. But, the Maulana says, one should not confuse between the concept of nation and the concept of ummah. The former is a political category whereas the latter is a religious category.
CENTER FOR STUDY OF SOCIETY AND SECULARISM
No wonder than that in most of the Islamic countries there is either no democracy, parliament etc. or quite controlled kind of democracy. But all these states in Islamic countries do have well-defined territories and no Islamic country is prepared to cede an inch of its territory. That clearly means that these countries do have well- defined territorial limits. Nation is defined within well-defined territorial limits. Thus nationalism has been accepted by all Islamic countries in the Islamic world. They have also accepted the concept of citizenship as territory alone cannot make a nation.
Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Theologian of Terror
According to Gazan Radio station Al Aqsa Voice, Qaradawi stated: "Not one inch of the land of Islam must remain in the grasp of infidels and occupiers.
We must irrigate the tree of freedom with our blood. We must not leave the Palestinians alone. Every Muslim fulfill [sic] his role supporting our brothers in Palestine until they obtain their rights." He reiterated even more clearly, "Arms must not be laid down ”he who wants freedom must pay the price."
Muslim Brotherhood Ideologue Incites Violence Against Jews and Israel
Peace?
Yeah, right.