Word: hadith
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...pastors say they were just telling the truth: most statements the judge found offensive were readings from the Koran and the Hadith, traditional lore about Muhammad. Scot, a lifelong student of these texts, claims his real offense was "talking about the parts of the Koran that Muslims want to hide from people." But ICV director Waleed Aly says the quotes - and references to "a lot of cases overseas that have nothing to do with Australia" - were used to argue "that Muslims in Australia are disposed to violence and terrorism and that Australia faced danger as a result." The Muslims...
...which, as defined by the totalitarian government of Afghanistan, includes simply listening to music. The Taliban, a collection of former theology students who took over Kabul in 1996, is best known for destroying ancient Buddhist statues and restricting the rights of women. It insists that there is a hadith (a record of the Prophet's sayings) warning people not to listen to music lest molten lead be poured into their ears on Judgment Day. Until then, the Taliban police are wreaking their own violence--against musical instruments and anyone who dares enjoy their...
...guidance in such matters, Muslims usually turn first to the Koran, then to the Hadith, a collection of the teachings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad. They also rely on a legal code that Islamic jurists developed centuries before Europe heard of international law. A TIME survey of Islamic scholars shows that religious justification for holding the U.S. hostages can hardly be found in any of these three sources...
Islamic tradition has always extended charity to diplomats and wayfarers. According to the Mishkat-ul-Mas-abih, a standard Hadith text, an enemy courier named Abu Rafi converted to Islam, but Muhammad insisted he return to his tribe so that the Prophet might avoid even a faint suspicion that he had taken Rafi as a hostage. Muhammad declared flatly, "I do not break treaties, nor do I make prisoners of envoys." The Koran 9:6 insists that even a religious enemy be granted asylum and conveyed to safety...