Indonesia’s Jihad for Honesty

Fantastic efforts are being made in Indonesia to clear up corruption and set up a honest, transparent system. My prayers are with them.

Some background:

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Two Things I Feel Happy About

One is this, rather old, news from Rwanda

Sheikh Saleh Habimana, the Mufti of Rwanda, is the representative of the country’s Muslims.

He says many turned to Islam because Muslims were seen to have acted differently.

“The roofs of Muslim houses were full of non-Muslims hiding. Muslims are not answerable before God for the blood of innocent people.”

Then this wikipedia entry about Albania relating to the Jews and the holocaust made me happy-

Albania is unique in that it is the only European country occupied by the Nazis that ended World War II with a larger Jewish population than before the War. The Albanian response to the Holocaust is especially notable because it was Europe’s only largely Muslim country. Even so only a Jewish family of six was deported and killed during the Nazi occupation of Albania.[8] Not only did the Albanians protect their own Jews, but they provided refuge for Jews from neighboring countries. The Albanians refused to comply and hand over lists of Jews. Instead they provided the Jewish families with forged documents and helped them disperse in the Albanian population.[9]

In February 1944, when the Nazis descended upon the mountain hiding place, not a single Jew fell into their hands.[10] During the Holocaust, Albania was the only country in Europe that protected and sheltered its entire Jewish population, both native and foreign.[11] There was no history of ideological anti-Semitism in Albania so it was unique in this regard.[12] The small number of Jews in Albania also played a key role in the possibility to protect them all. During the Italian occupation, they were able to disperse and blend in with the general population. However, the role of the Albanian population as a whole in saving Jews is undeniable.

Islam is alive.

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A ‘Terrorist’ Defending a ‘Terrorist’ aka Muddassar Arani

A Muslim lawyer, Muddassar Arani, has been at the receiving end of racist and Islamophobic attacks.

She chose to write about it to Abdur-Raheem Green. (I know it from ijtema).

To cut a long story short, she is unacceptable to a certain section of people as defense lawyer of Muslims accused of terrorism related charges.

Homeyra writes:

I have stopped following these “terrorist” trials and such for the greater part. It is not that I do not care, but perhaps because I feel angry at my helplessness. However I am wrong and not following these happenings only puts me at a disadvantage because I become ignorant of the sufferings of my brothers and sisters.

That’s exactly what has happened to me too.

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