Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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On Extremism September 14, 2008

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Quran 10:25 · Yunus
Sirat Ibn Hisham, vol.2, p.224
Sunan Abu Dawud, Hadith no. 2765
Quran 94:6 · Ash-Sharh
Quran 5:32 · Al-Ma'idah
Sunan Abu Dawud, Hadith no. 4336
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4 min 2 sec
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Bomb blast headlines versus a lifelong peace mission
“Today every paper's headline is the same”
36 sec
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Peace mission never made headlines, unlike this bombing
“I've run a peace mission for 60 years”
1 min 49 sec
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Why I alone have no negative view of media
“My mission never became a newspaper headline”
2 min 10 sec
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History's war-against-war thinking, then the Prophet's peace formula
“Back then people believed: war against war”
22 sec
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First time in history: peace against war formula
“War against war — that's how everyone thought”
1 min 29 sec
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Prophet of Islam almost never actually fought wars
“His biographers count 83 battles — that's absurd”
5 min 58 sec
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How the Prophet avoided war: Trench, Hudaybiyyah, opportunity
“His biographers count 83 battles — that's absurd”
2 min 46 sec
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Battle of the Trench: avoiding war through strategy
“Once a 12,000-strong army marched on Medina”
1 min 55 sec
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Hudaybiyyah: accepting every condition to secure peace
“At Hudaybiyyah they were bent on fighting”
29 sec
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Discovery: peace always brings opportunities
“What did the Prophet of Islam discover?”
2 min 40 sec
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Media is a news industry, not a mission
“What is media? It's a news industry”
41 sec
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Only person in history uninterested in hot news
“Media is an industry, it sells news”
1 min 48 sec
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Don't blame media for 9/11, blame yourself
“There was a seminar in Delhi after 9/11”
2 min 27 sec
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Manage freedom's misuse instead of trying to abolish it
“The Prophet said problems will always remain”
35 sec
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Can't abolish freedom, must learn to manage it
“We cannot abolish the freedom God gave”
2 min 59 sec
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Separate Islam from Muslims; verse on killing innocents
“You must differentiate between Islam and Muslims”
5 min 49 sec
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Why a true Muslim could never plant a bomb
“Look at this reference from the Quran”
49 sec
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Quran verse: killing one innocent kills all humanity
“There is a verse in the Quran”
27 sec
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Bombers aren't Muslims, they're animals
“These people are nothing, they're animals”
3 min 27 sec
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Q&A: the double standard of fatwas over bombings
“There was a fatwa against actor Salman Khan”
2 min 3 sec
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Islam was history's first ideology of peace
“Islam is the first religion with a peace ideology”
1 min 26 sec
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Terrorists quote verses out of context to justify themselves
“Everyone does this — quoting things out of context”
1 min 36 sec
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Vague conference condemnations of terrorism achieve nothing
“That condemnation was itself a false condemnation”