Monday, December 4, 2006

Assassination Awards!!

First off.. I dont understand how news about assassination plot can be merged with award ceremony for religious nuts..??
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Assassination Plots Foiled
Raid Qusti & Ali Al-Zahrani,
Source: Arab News

RIYADH, 4 December 2006 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah was honored yesterday at a ceremony for the distribution of Naif Ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Saud International Prize for Sunnah and Contemporary Islamic Studies. The king had won the prestigious award for serving the Sunnah (the sayings and life of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him).
I can't figure out how did he managed to serve the sunnah but as a rule of thumb, being the rule of Saudi Arabia he is entitled to this award by default. Isn't it??? A mere attempt to gain publicity in the Islamic block..

The Supreme Commission of the Prize chose the king as the recipient due to his many efforts to serve Islam and Muslims, such as proposing an emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference last year in Makkah in light of the challenges faced by the Muslim world.
So if you call a meeting you are entitled to award. A good point to be learned from Saudi incompetency. We all know what happens in those OIC meetings. The world's best incompetent leaders gather to have some mandi, kabsa and juice.

Attending the event on behalf of Abdullah was Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, who distributed certificates and cash prizes to the winners. Among the other dignitaries who attended were Prince Naif, interior minister and the president of the Supreme Commission of the Prize, Riyadh Gov. Prince Salman, president of the Shoura Council Sheikh Saleh Bin-Humaid, ministers, Grand Mufti Sheikh AbdulAziz Al-Asheikh, the grand mufti of Lebanon and the mufti of Egypt.
So despite being so dignified, he couldn't attend the ceremony. How shameful!! may be he didnt want to face the intrusive media representatives.

Speaking to reporters after the ceremony, Prince Naif said that the members of the seven terrorist cells busted by the government plotted a number of assassinations and terrorist operations in the country. “Security officers are ready to foil any future terrorist operation.”
The interior minister said people behind these terrorist cells “are the enemies of Islam and Muslims even if they have an Islamic mask.” He said that the arrested terrorists had political and economic agendas. “Their aim is to turn Muslim against Muslim,” he said, adding that this would only benefit non-Muslims.
Isn't this a bit out of subject. Or even a wrong mix and match. What sensible reporter in world would question something not even in the same horizon. Or may be someone asked an intrusive question to nasty Naif and he couldn't do better than just steer the reporter off the subject. Totally idiotic to talk about assassination attempts during an award ceremony for religion. It wasn't even releated to law and order. But kudos, they can always find a relation of any event with Islam and muslims. Aren't the so called Islamic terrorist your own product of Immam University???

The minister said the government had no plans to increase the number of its administrative regions, adding that governors were doing their best to serve the country and notified the king of the challenges they faced in their regions.
Governers are doing the best of their incompetency and corruption.

Naif said that the aim of his international prize was to “protect the image of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) from all sorts of mockery,” citing that in the recent past the prophet has been a target of mockery from the enemies of Islam.
And he will be mocked until:
1. Islam is reformed, not by changing the Koran or something but by revising its practices and making it compatible with 21st century. Something revealed in 6th century cannot be used to dictate life in 21st century. Evolution is a part of survival. Those who reject change are burried in history.
2. Closing down Immam University
3. Opening up the magic kingdom to all kind of rights especially human and women.

Said Al-Harthi, adviser to the interior minister and secretary-general of the Supreme Commission of the Prize, announced the winners of this year’s prize. The Prophet’s Sunnah Prize was awarded to Basim Al-Jawabra, a Jordanian national, for his research titled “Infidelity Charges in the Light of the Prophet’s Sunnah.”
For how long we will like to judge morals by the doubtful doctrine of Sunnah. Don't we have enough modren laws. Or medival laws of lashing already implemented in Saudi Arabia??

In the same category, another prize was given to Saudi national Nawal Al-Eid for her research paper titled: “The Rights of Women in the Prophet’s Sunnah.”
After screening by graduates of Immam University and confirming that that abide by the "Saudi Standard".

Mohammad Waqiallah Ahmed, a Sudanese national, won the Contemporary Islamic Studies Prize for his research titled: “Islam in Current Western Curricula — Review and Criticism.”
At the ceremony, Prince Salman said the prize encouraged researchers to serve the Sunnah. “It also encourages the youth to adopt Sunnah in their lifestyle and implant the love of the Prophet in the hearts of Muslim youth.”
Dont they have enough sunnah?? Or they want to raise the bar of polygamy from 4 to 23. Perhaps a clever way or saying all Muslim youth should graduate from Immam University..

Al-Harthi said Crown Prince Sultan’s attendance on behalf of King Abdullah illustrated the keenness of the country’s leadership to support Islamic research on the Qur’an and Sunnah, which is the constitution of the Kingdom.
And for as long it stays the constitution of this country, we should forget anout any Human rights. I advice all bright saudi women flee to west and file for asylum.

He said 306 research papers were submitted. Seventy-nine research works were rejected in the first phase. In the second phase, an additional 112 research works were rejected after they were evaluated by a number of university professors. “The remaining 115 research papers were then scrutinized by the most qualified religious scholars in the Kingdom,” he said.
They simply didn't pass the "quality control" of Immam University graduates or did not confirm to wahabi standards and were therefore rejected.




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