Source: The Washington Post
Donald Trump is at it again. This time, the Republican presidential front-runner suggested that the United States close the border to all Muslims — including Muslim Americans traveling abroad. Anyone who cares an iota about religious liberty should denounce this reckless, demagogic rhetoric.
Trump, of course, is a master of knowing and seizing a moment. The country is reeling from a terrorist attack by two Islamic radicals. Moreover, the president seems to many to have little plan to eradicate the threat of the Islamic State from building a massive caliphate in the Middle East and exporting terror all over the world.
Enter the Man in the Trump Tower with a plan to “get tough” by closing the borders to Muslims, all Muslims, simply because they are Muslim.
As an evangelical Christian, I could not disagree more strongly with Islam. I believe that salvation comes only through union with Jesus Christ, received through faith. As part of the church’s mission, we believe we should seek to persuade our Muslim neighbors of the goodness and truth of the gospel.
It is not in spite of our gospel conviction, but precisely because of it, that we should stand for religious liberty for everyone.
The Revolutionary-era Baptist preacher John Leland repeatedly included “the Turks” in his list of religious freedoms he was demanding from the politicians of his time (including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison). Leland wanted to make it clear that his concept of religious freedom was not dependent on a group’s political power. He chose the most despised religious minority of the time, with no political collateral in his context, to make the point that religious freedom is a natural right bestowed by God, not a grant given by the government.
The governing authorities have a responsibility, given by God, to protect the population from violence and to punish the evildoers who perpetrate such violence (Romans 13:1-7). The governing powers, as with every earthly power, have a limited authority. The government cannot exalt itself as a lord over the conscience, a god over the soul.
Categories: Christianity, Islam, Politics, The Muslim Times, United States
GOD COMMAND; GOVERNMENT HAS TO PROTECT THE RIGHT OF RELIGIOUS MINORITY.
HUMAN RIGHT IS THE CORE OF ISLAM.
Proverb 31:8. Speak up for people who can not speak for themselves. Protect the rights of all who are helpless.speak for them and be a righteous judge.protect the right of the poor and needy.
Psalm 103 ;6.
God judges favor of the oppressed and gives them their rights.He revealed His plans to Moses and let the people of Israel see His mighty deeds. God is merciful and loving.
QS 4:75. And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)? Men, women, and children, whose cry is: “Our Lord! rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will protect; and raise for us from thee one who will help.
MY CONCLUSION.
Islamic teaching protect the right of the religious or non religious minority. There is no oppression in Islam. Islam is peaceful religion, mercy for all people and no compulsion to religious or non religious minority.
So Human Right is the core of Islamic teaching.
May Allah guide us all to the right path, ameen.
For You from My Heart.
All those who read shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; O Allah, be my witness, that I have conveyed your message to your people.
Wassalamu’alaikum wrwb
With all my love.
Islam will ‘protect’ minorities who live as dhimmis. The ‘human rights’ of minorities are determined by the sharia. The history of every conquered people shows what sort of human rights were allowed them.
When you conclude by saying that there is no oppression in islam, which is contrary to the truth, it means that you are being very deceitful.
There is no oppression and Christians and Yazidis are pouring out of Iraq and Syria? No oppression and ‘moderate’ Turkey only recently allowed the opening of some churches? No oppression and in ‘moderate’ Malaysia no body can be a Malay if not a muslim? There religion determines ethnicity.
The quran even says that the dhimmis should pay the apartheid jizya tax in total humiliation.
There is no oppression for as long as it is done to those unbelievers who are the ‘filthiest things before allah’.
Dear Namelee—I agree with your comment that most of Muslim leaders in Middle East do not implement Allah’s laws righly—that is why we can see conflict over there now.They follow some of Allah’s laws and reject the rest.
That is why Allah punish them as we see now with civil-war—Arab killing other Arab–Muslim killing other Muslim and non Muslim as well .
With love