Need It Be “Us and Them”?
Ein interessanter Artikel auf islamonline.net, den alle Muslime - aber auch alle anderen - lesen sollten. Need It Be “Us and Them”?
Muslims have been living among non-Muslims since the beginning of the Revelation. Sometimes Muslims were the rulers, sometimes they were not. As early as eighteen years after the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), Muslims-led by Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas-sailed to the east coast of China and obtained permission of the emperor to settle there and establish a mosque at Ch’ang-an, which still stands today (Islam in China by Yusuf Abdur Rahman). It didn’t seem to bother them to live among non-Muslims. We can see from this that the issues facing non-ruling Muslim minorities are not recent ones, and we should remember that even when Muslims were the rulers, they were often the minority.
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