Ummah

"One Legacy is the fingerprint of the young Muslim ummah [community] -- it basically personifies the kind of ummah that we have right now," said Yasmin Bhuj, 31, a founder and marketing director who is married to Mattar. ❋ Raja Abdulrahim (2010)

The Prophet pbuh made the Jews of Medina one "ummah," or community with the believers. ❋ Unknown (2005)

If we didn't have the PLO and 30 years ago we followed the positions of Mr. Meshaal, Mr. Haniye and Mr. Zahhar, today there wouldn't be something called Palestine, we would be mere part of the "ummah". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ironically, of course, the nearest thing we have to fascsim in the Uk is ISLAM and all those muslims who tacitly support the 'ummah' and jihad. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, if a non-Muslim population refuses to adopt Islam or pay the Jizya protection/subjugation tax, that population is considered to be at war with the Muslim "ummah" and therefore it becomes legal under Islamic law to take slaves from that non-Muslim population. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Victor D. Hanson in "From Nationalism to Fascism to Terror Parallels between Germany and the Arab World by Ray Ibrahim Private Papers" explains in length the parallel of "ummah" in Arabism/Islamism (as pride in their prophet from Arabia, and a more "true" Arab is rather a Muslim-Arab) as is "volk" in Nazism and in both cases the rejection of Jews were used to ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mohammed believed that by means of monotheism he could bring about a pan-Islamic and pan-Arab unity called "ummah". ❋ Bible Prophecy Today (2009)

Citing an axiomatic prophetic principle, Shaykh Adhami described how the ummah (community) of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, should be "dynamic and committed to action": "'If the Hour (end of the world) were to arrive while you were just about to plant a seed into the ground, you should go ahead and plant it.'" ❋ Fahad Faruqui (2011)

According to the group's English language website, the group was founded in order to achieve "the independence of the Muslim land from foreign domination, and the establishment of an Islamic sociopolitical system unitiy of ummah." ❋ The Huffington Post (2011)

Or Isaiah, or Tennyson, for that matter, or even the worldwide ummah; others in the world also have eschatological visions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Certainly, for the vast majority our allegiance is first and only to the U.S. and never to any Islamist constructs of the Islamic state, the ummah, or jihad. ❋ M. Zuhdi Jasser (2011)

But this isn't merely about a very great religious and social phenomenon, which is a key element of 'ummah' and what makes Islam a community quite different from any other religion; it's also an astonishing cultural and trading event. ❋ Andrew McKie (2012)

There is unfortunately a strong connection to western ideals and pre-Islamic practises that is influencing the men and women within our ummah thus causing a severe and sometimes irreparable break in the bonds of marriage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As for the meaning of the veil in contemporary Western societies, Ms. Ahmed is very much a disciple of the French scholar Olivier Roy, who argues that Muslims living in the West—where religion is not imposed by a social authority—will anchor their identities less in nationality or even ethnicity than in solidarity with the "ummah," the universal community of Muslim believers. ❋ Mira Sethi (2011)

Category: christopher thomas, luqman ameen abdullah, New York Times, ummah ❋ Unknown (2009)

Over the centuries, the Islamic ummah, or community, gradually lost its progressive tendencies and, as history passed it by, found itself divided and on the defensive against encroachment from the West and oppressive secular rulers from within the Shah of Iran, Nasser in Egypt, and Saddam in Iraq, to name a few recent "reformers". ❋ Clay Farris Naff (2011)

Someone who has met him "off line" believes he is what is technically known in the ummah as "a jerk." ❋ M_francis (2009)

Danish Muslim: Shouldn't we support [Denmark] in this crisis? Danish [Imam]: Fuck Denmark! We're with the [Ummah]! ❋ Theoneverdies (2006)

We're one [big family], Al-Ummah [brotherhood], where we can learn to [be the best] that we can be. ❋ LK-AU2K10 (2010)