Word: qur
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...feel that The Siege reinforcesthe public's association between Islamic practicesand terrorist activity. "The movie tried to getcloser to the substance of Islam, but in the end,"Siddiqui says, "it was quite flawed, unbalanced."Only terrorists speak of religious matters, andtwo imprisoned characters recite the seminalprayer from the Qur'an (the Muslim scripture)."The practicing Muslims were terrorists, anddespite the portrayal of families praying [duringmontage sequences of community life], the familiesweren't developed," he explains. "There was enoughsuspicion raised in the movie to make even thesefamilies suspect; there's nothing to say thatthese are good people...
...hunch is he would agree after having attended the march--that Minister Farrakhan's two-and-a-half hour rant all but ignored the purpose of the march, with its extended numerological speculations about the height of the Lincoln Memorial and the number of chapters in the Qur...
...This statement needs clarification. "Allah" is the Arabic term for the one God, no different from the God worshipped by Jews. While Islam certainly affirms that truth is uniform since there is only one God, it does not deny the validity of monotheistic faiths like Judaism and Christianity. The Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, shows that Islam is a continuation of the Abarahamic faith as revealed over time to Prophets including David, Moses, Jesus and finally Mohammad (peace be upon all them...
...however, and in stripping the speaker's points of the context in which they were made, the article distorted the speaker's message and content. Consistent with this inattention to journalistic standards found in The Crimson's coverage was the misspelling of the name of the holy book, the Qur...
Similarly it is never reported that the Islamic faith prohibits terrorism. The media unthinkingly attributes acts of violence to Muslim fundamentalists. Yet the term Muslim fundamentalist refers to those who follow the literal wording of the Qur'an, and in Islamic law there is no justification for terrorism...