What the NSA Can Learn From Prophet Muhammad

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Source: Time

By Qasim Rashid

Islam places immense emphasis on privacy in ways that Western governments today have only begun to match with privacy laws.

In spying on innocent American Muslim lawyers, the NSA likely violated the U.S. Constitution, and definitely violated the Qur’an’s powerful teachings on privacy.

Not only did the Qur’an champion privacy rights centuries before any modern constitution, but also, perhaps no law in history preserves the right to privacy as thoroughly and emphatically as does the Qur’an. Chapter 24:28-29 declares:

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