Islam is neither from the East nor the West. Neither is Allah nor the Prophet.
These things are "beyond geography" if you will.
And as the Qur'an says, God raises and lowers people as He wills.
And, as it says, He checks one group of people by means of another, and if He did not, then there would be complete corruption on Earth (i.e. it would be worse than it already is).
In this vein, I have always thought it was funny that, regardless of how powerless and hapless the Muslim world is apparently today; still, in the U.S., which is the most powerful nation (militarily and economically) in history, they never stop talking about how to deal with the Muslim world, and how they are viewed in the Muslim world, and will Obama make the Muslims view them better, and and and...
If they spent one tenth on their public schools as they do on all the stuff they do all centered around what Muslims think and do, then they would actually be able to locate Muslim countries on a map.
Islam is neither from the East nor the West. Neither is Allah nor the Prophet.
These things are "beyond geography" if you will.
And as the Qur'an says, God raises and lowers people as He wills.
And, as it says, He checks one group of people by means of another, and if He did not, then there would be complete corruption on Earth (i.e. it would be worse than it already is).
In this vein, I have always thought it was funny that, regardless of how powerless and hapless the Muslim world is apparently today; still, in the U.S., which is the most powerful nation (militarily and economically) in history, they never stop talking about how to deal with the Muslim world, and how they are viewed in the Muslim world, and will Obama make the Muslims view them better, and and and...
If they spent one tenth on their public schools as they do on all the stuff they do all centered around what Muslims think and do, then they would actually be able to locate Muslim countries on a map.