The Muslim Students' Association of the University of Houston has a most interesting website, especially its page headed "Questions Related to Aqidah (Faith)." (Thanks to MB for the link.) Among other things, it tells Muslims that they should not hire unbelievers, and that Muslims are permitted to be polite to unbelievers for the purpose of calling them to Islam.
(I wonder if the UH authorities know that the MSA is advocating religious discrimination.)
Ruling About Hiring a Non-Muslim Maid [or Servant]Question: I sent requests asking for a maid to help my wife with her housework. I discovered, through letters, that they did not find a Muslim in the country that I wanted a maid from. Is it allowed for me to hire a non-Muslim maid?
Response: It is not allowed to have a non-Muslim maid or a non-Muslim male servant, or a worker who is non-Muslim for anyone living in the Arabian Peninsula. This is because the Prophet (peace be upon him) ordered the Jews and Christians to be expelled from that land. He ordered that only Muslims should be left there. He decreed upon his death that all polytheists must be expelled from this Peninsula.
Although this only has to do with the Arabian Peninsula, the Saudi Sheikh who is writing this ruling then expands its scope:
Furthermore, hiring disbelieving men and women is very dangerous for the Muslims, their faith, their behavior and the upbringing of their children. Therefore, such must be prevented in obedience to Allah, the Glorified, and His Messenger (peace be upon him), and to prevent a source of evil and immorality.And Allah is the One who provides guidance.
Shaikh Ibn Baz
And then there is directive to manipulate the unsuspecting:
Ruling Concerning Mixing with the Disbelievers in order to Call Them to IslamQuestion: Is it allowed to mix with the disbelievers, Christians, Hindus and others, and to eat and talk to them or even to be amicable with them as a means of calling them to Islam?
Response: It is allowed to mix with the disbelievers, sit with them and be polite with them as means of calling them to Allah, explaining to them the teachings of Islam, encouraging them to enter this religion and to make it clear to them the good result of accepting the religion and the evil result of punishment for those who turn away. For this purpose, being a companion to them and showing love for them is overlooked in order to reach that good final goal.
Shaikh Ibn Jibreen
"For this purpose, being a companion to them and showing love for them is overlooked in order to reach that good final goal." In other words, it is an objective evil to be a companion to and show love for an unbeliever — unless one is doing it to convert them.
This ruling accords completely with Qur'an 3:28: "Let not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may guard yourselves from them." It's a bit convoluted, but the verse is essentially saying that Muslims must not make friends with non-Muslims, except insincerely, in order to strengthen themselves against them. This is one of the foundation verses of the doctrine of religious deception, taqiyya. And certainly making friends with an unbeliever in order to make him a Muslim would be one way to strengthen the Muslim community.
Unbelievable. These people have the nerve... Why don't we deport them back to Saudi Arabia/Iran/Yemen/Syria, where they can be certain that whoever they hire is definitely Muslim? Sounds like a swell idea to me. Heck, La Raza can learn a thing or two about ethnic agitation from these low-lifes.
How ironic!
Wouldn't it be interesting if TAPPS Director Edd Burleson confronted CAIR and with this little UH MSA gem!
See yesterday's article:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/004431.php#comments
Do you think the ACLU will jump all over this one? I don't either.
If ever there was a lawsuit in the making, this seems to be it. But I've been wrong many times before, so I'm not counting my chickens.
If we refuse to hire muslims- which is are God given right, they call it racial profiling. If a muslim refuses to hire non-muslims it's called obeying the koran.
If you click on the "index" link at the bottom of the page you can also read the official and definitive Islamic position on the feeble mindedness of the female gender:
I'd like to see them explain that away in a US court of law.
I am not surprised at all by this. The aggressive da'wa, and the strident political agenda of MSAs across the country (that tip toes around issues of terrorism and blatant threats against the United States. But, please, don't we all know what the MSAs are trying to do? Convert people to Islam. Convince people that Israel, America and Jews are evil. And for what end?) should make plain the aims of these student organizations.
Off topic, but on Christmas day I could not help a little meditation on Christianity and Islam.
How would one distill the essence, the ethos, the prevailing message of the Christian stories, beginning with the happy birth of Jesus, that quickly fast forwards to teaching, betrayal, death and resurrection? I would suggest something like "healing through self sacrifice", that leads, of course, to eternal life.
And how would one capture in a bottle the message of the Qur'an, hadiths and sira? How about purity, holiness and escape from damnation through strict obedience to the Messenger?
The flavor, the experience, the meanings of Islam are utterly distinct from the messages of the Christian narratives. These two faiths conflict on so many levels I do not see how religious scholars can really speak of them in the same family of 'Abrahamic faiths'.
On Christmas day Christians have happily sent gifts to Muslim families in Iraq, not really giving much thought to the fact these families are Muslim (I would guess many folks who engaged in these activities do not know much about religion in Iraq or what Islam really is). But could an Muslims or a Muslim organization ever do something similar for Infidels in need? The question must be raised: will the Infidels accept the prophet or not? Without an answer to that question how can a Muslim know the value of the charity? Is the charity encouraging belief, obedience to the prophet or not?
Again, healing (spreading the message of love) versus purity (enlarging the community of believers, the umma). The spirit of charity versus the spirit of obedience. The texture of the religious cultures, that flow from the textual traditions themselves, could not be more different.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks, JTF, for the thought and analysis. I see the message of Jesus as being love (without judgement), forgiveness, and the possibility of redemption. Islam seems to require an unbelievable level of obedience to bizarre rules. According to www.muslimwoman.com, muslim women can't pluck their eyebrows, but are supposed to pluck their underarm hair and shave their pubic hair. Yeeeks, what sort of "religion" gives a rats ass about that stuff?
What sort of "religious" leader decrees that people of other religions be kicked out of a country? Would Jesus or Buddha or the Dalai Lama ever kick out people who didn't share their religion?? I do NOT understand the appeal of islam at all.
By the way, I found the UH president and Dean of Students (http://www.uh.edu/contactuh/), and I'm writing a letter to them about the discriminatory and deceptive advice given on the UH MSA website. How does one find out who is on the Board of Directors of a university?
Thank you for your efforts Kelley.
Informing folks in the Office of Development ( http://www.advancement.uh.edu/development/contact/contacts.html?-db=devinforequest.FP5&-lay=DataEntry&-format=index.htm&-view )about what the MSA at UH has published with the reminder that alumni and other donors will not look kindly on a university that does not censure or close a student organization that endorses such discriminatory, bigoted, views, might have some effect.
On the other hand, these kinds of open remarks make more transparent the ideology of this MSA; it would be nice if the student newspaper wrote a story about this.
Also, would that all MSAs spoke publically like this; it would be far easier to expose the nature of their belief system and political agenda if they did. But these organizations tend to be far too clever for that.
Oh, and here is the link to the Board of Regents:
http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/regents/
Note to Terminator:
"Yes, as a class, men are superior to women in general." says the Shaikh.
Looks like you have something in common with Islam. I think this sentiment permeates all societies still, as we are slowly evolving out of the period in our history when women were submissive to men because men were the strongest and that strength was needed to procure food and to protect the woman in her most fragile times.
When one is forced to submit to a stronger being, it is easy for the dominant one to assume that because he is stronger and in control of most of the workings of the world, he is also smarter.
That assumption is being smashed daily as women fight their way out from under the yoke of men's protection and suppression and as they prove, through education and world experience that they are as smart and capable as their male counterparts in all professions.
This is the part of all religions that has turned me way off to them. They hold on to the old concepts that assume male superiority, because the texts of the religion were written by men and controlled by men.
I love the bumpersticker, "Eve Was Framed" because right away in Genesis the old story goes that it was Eve that caused poor old Adam to be separated from his God, in whose image he was made. (and she from HIS rib as an afterthought to keep him company.) And of course, then the writer declared this the WORD of God...so it's truth was indisputable.
Exactly what the Islamists do, Terminator.
Allah said it,- not some man who wanted to dominate, starting with the women around him, and then extending to the entire world.
At my work, I received an e:mail Christmas card from a westernised Iranian colleague, the card depicting a tender and respectful Nativity scene. From an associate company in Houston, I received a card wishing me "Happy Holidays". The point here is that a lapsed Muslim showed more respect to the basic message of Christmas than a company whose lawyers are terrified of the secularists. Watch out for the secularists: they have taken over whole swathes of the opinion-forming media (BBC, Guardian, CBS etc.) and political groupings (ACLU, Democratic Party, all mainstream UK parties) and will undermine our culture more than Islam ever could.
Not surpised at all,in Canada Islamic Org.'s
use profiling as a way of hiring Muslims and not violating the Human Rights laws dealing with employment.
The job listings require a good comand of Arabic skills and knowledge of Islam and the Quran,the idea that a person answering the phone
as a reception worker must know the Quran and
read Arabic is absurd. This is a ruse that allow them to hire "Muslim-only" workers and even go as far as enforcing a Hijab-only workplace.
Islam is not a faith of tolerance and justice,Muslims are so blind to the bigotry within that they accept a Quranic paranoia that
brainwashes them into believing everyone else is against them and it's because of "Islamophobia".
Yesterday a Muslim conference was held in Toronto Canada and it dealt with Jesus in the Quran and how he was only a prophet and not the Messiah that Christians believe,it also was reported in the newspaper that "Islamophobia"
in the Post-9/11 era would be discussed.
How insensitive to mock Jesus in public on December 25th and deny that Muslims had anything
to do with the 9/11 attack.
The paranoia and denial is really sad and it's getting us killed through their failure to help Security Forces find the radical Muslims in the Mosques,CAIR supports a Islamic NorthAmerica and that alone should wake people up to the real goals of Islam and Muhammed.
Like any discrimination, refusing to hire the most competent people on the basis of religious belief reduces your pool of applicants. The more you reduce your pool, the more the effect becomes pronounced.
The real problem for muslims is what to do when there are no muslims available who have the skill necessary to do a particular job. This has happened plenty of times and the solution seems to be to hire unbelievers but ritually humiliate them to keep them in their place. This, of course, is contrary to US law.
As a libertarian, I've got nothing against muslims acting to their own disadvantage in order to follow their faith. As a believer in the rule of law, I'm disturbed about unequal enforcement of the law which, however stupid the law is, can never be justified.