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Islam and Sectarianism

Are Wahhabis up-keepers of a purer form of religion than other Sunnis?

MUSLIM DENIAL - THE FUEL OF FALSEHOOD

By Syed Akbar Ali

Therefore when you point out that they are also not exactly in the right way, they will disagree because they fear embarrassment. This is an irrational fear because it is better to realize mistakes now and remedy them than to flounder, fail and flop all over the place like fools.

There is nothing wrong with the human being. God says in the Quran that He made the human in a perfect form. I have always wanted to have an extra pair of hands but we have to accept that God knows what He is doing. There is nothing wrong with the human being. The hardware is perfect. Only the software can be corrupted – and it frequently is. What is put inside the human brain can make him a monster. I believe all religious software – without exception – is corrupted. But I believe in Islam and the Quran because Islam is not a religion. It is a deen or a way of life. The Quran is not a book of crazyhorse mantras but it is a book of guidance that the Muslims should hold in their hands like a map to find their way - everyday.

But the Muslims have left the Quran very far behind.

"The Messenger will say 'My Lord, surely my people have taken the Quran for a joke" Surah 25:30.

This is the complaint of the Prophet himself. The prophet's inheritors will ignore the Quran. But they will deny it vehemently. The Shiahs are vehemently arguing that an eight year old child who disappeared down a well hundreds of years ago will emerge one day as the 12th Imam who will rule the world. In Iraq the Shiahs and Sunnis are killing each other by the tens and hundreds everyday because of such beliefs. They both deny that they are in the wrong. Both believe they are on the right path!

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Secret imprisonment often leads to grave violations of human rights - Physicians for Human Rights, War on Terror, NewAgeIslam.com

War on Terror

Secret imprisonment often leads to grave violations of human rights - Physicians for Human Rights

Dark history

August 03, 2008

The demand by the Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) that the US Congress and British Parliament investigate a report in a leading US magazine that the CIA was maintaining a secret detention centre on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, where a key US base is located, once more highlights US abuses of basic rights. The PHR, which has documented torture for 21 years, warns that 'secret' imprisonment often leads to grave violations of human rights. The PHR, since 2005, has also spearheaded US civil society efforts against the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay and other detention centres. In its reports, it has detailed use of psychological terror and other 'sophisticated' techniques the CIA is said to employ. The suspicion that 'ghost' prisoners are being held at Diego Garcia is a disturbing one. Certainly, the fact that such prisoners exist is known. The harrowing accounts given recently of an unidentified Pakistani woman, apparently being held at Bagram for years on end, helped underscore this ugly reality. There is also a suspicion that the young scientist and mother, Dr Afia Siddiqui, who disappeared from Karachi in 2003 with her three small children, may have ended up at such a detention centre. All of us need to support the international effort to speak up for these people. No matter what their crime – if indeed they are involved in one – no one deserves to be shut up for years, in secret jails, without access to family, lawyers and a trial process. It is unclear how many Pakistanis may have met with such a fate, but certainly there are accusations a number of them were handed over to the US, possibly in exchange for 'head money'. Some may indeed have ended up at places like Diego Garcia. As the PHR has demanded, international humanitarian groups must be allowed access to prisons there.

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