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| A letter from a mother |
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| ahmer |
| 03/02/02 at 16:49:26 |
| [slm] this appeared on the local unit forum.. honestly i couldn't find an answer. i wonder if someone can help on how to explain this? [wlm] ahmer MESSAGE: (#1290) something to wonder about ! AUTHOR: Farrukh Raza DATE: Saturday, 2 March 2002, at 4:08 p.m. A sister writes to ICNA: ----------------------------------- Assalamu Alaikum: My daughter attends an Islamic School. Recently she brought an article to class for a homework assignment. They could choose any article, read it and write a few sentences about it. She is 7 years old. The article she brought in was headlined " 6 Israelis killed". After she read the article the teacher called for takbir. She had not done this before when my daughter had read other articles. When she came home, I could tell she was confused about something and we spoke about why her teacher made takbir. I honestly did not know and felt it inappropriate to rejoice at anothers death. We don't know the true character or belief of those individuals. Allah know best. What is the Islamic etiquette on this? Does this not teach our children to hate a group and rejoice in their misfortune? Later when discussing this with other muslims, they seem to be of the opinion that we should teach our children about the Israelis and encourage them to fight them if we get the chance. By the way they don't use the word israel, they use the word yahudi and think its cute when a 2 year old knows the word and understand them as a bad people. Is there some hadith or quran that tells us how we should teach our children about complex religious/politcal issues? Are we not teaching our children to hate? How can we follow the Islamic rulings on how to resolve conflict if we are skipping directly to physical fighting and war? wa laikum assalam |
| 03/02/02 at 16:50:20 |
| ahmer |
| Re: A letter from a mother |
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| Kathy |
| 03/03/02 at 11:11:13 |
| [slm] I am the mother of a seven year old. As smart and as good as he is ( ;), he is not mature enough, developed enough or have enough wisdom to comprehend these issues. There is so much to teach children- perhaps the teacher could have found more age relevent material. |
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| AyeshaZ |
| 03/11/02 at 20:29:56 |
| [quote author=ahmer link=board=madrasa;num=1015835282;start=0#0 date=03/02/02 at 16:49:26][slm] this appeared on the local unit forum.. honestly i couldn't find an answer. i wonder if someone can help on how to explain this? [wlm] ahmer [/quote] Walaikum Asalam, I am speechless as well, its so sad and depressing that things like this actually go on. It bothers me so much when even a glass breaks i have literally heard people blaming it on the jews.. I mean we need to step out of this conspiracy and anti-jewish mentality. No wonder our youth is so confused!!! >:( May Allah(swt) give us All a better understanding of our Deen. JazakumAllahu Khair |
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