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Earlier this month, Irfan Siddiqi '98 left his room before dawn, heading to the basement of Canaday E for the first of his five required daily prayers to Allah...
...holidays. The boarding of four armed men in blue uniforms with Air Algerie identification badges caused no alarm. Explaining they were security agents, the men proceeded to check the passengers' passports. Then they suddenly closed and locked the doors. "I knew it was a hostage taking when they shouted, 'Allah is great!' " recalled a 40-year-old Algerian-born mechanic now living in France. "I thought of my children back in France, and I became afraid. Three men entered the cockpit, the fourth covered us with his Kalashnikov. No one budged. Then the waiting started...
Furthermore, the article said that Imam Hosein "denied the validity of other religions" and quoted him as saying: Truth is Allah and Allah is one. Therefore, truth is one." This statement needs clarification. "Allah" is the Arabic term for the one God, no different from the God worshipped by Jews. While Islam certainly affirms that truth is uniform since there is only one God, it does not deny the validity of monotheistic faiths like Judaism and Christianity. The Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, shows that Islam is a continuation of the Abarahamic faith as revealed over time...
...Allah created a single soul, a transcendental entity, and from that he created its mate," Hosein said. "Because of their delicacy and fragility, women need to be protected. Men must have authority, and women must submit.... The only way a man can protect her is if she is obedient...
...denied the validity of other religions, describing religious truth as a single objective reality. "Truth is Allah and Allah is one. Therefore, truth is one. There is one truth," Hosein said. "This is not intolerance, not bigotry. It is just fact...