I am frequently been told by the leadership of APPNA that it is a SECULAR association and that making Jma'at Namaz and saying Allah-o-Akber is NOT APPRO PRIATE in the meetings of the association. I did not think this has anything to do with the association but it has everything to do with Muslims, no matter where they are they do that because offering 5-daily prayers is part of their religion and I had always felt that SECULAR DOES NOT MEAN ANTI-RELIGIOUS. In the USA or any other Western country the state is considered secular and THERE IS FREEDOM OF PRACTICE OF RELIGION in these states (I guess that kind of ruling is what these association leaders are following)
So why do they object if the Muslims do such terrible things (like making Azan and Jamaat namaz)that hurt the non-Muslims of the Association so bad they may quit the association which would be very non-democratic or so they think.
One objection went so far to suggest that this is as bad as killing Christians (referring to an ancident in Pakistan where some local Muslims hearing that Christians had desecrated Qur'an copy (which was a lie) they took the law in their own hands and put fire to the houses of many Christains and nobody did anything (I dont know the whole story of the aftermath).
There are many Christians Hindus and Sikhs living in Pakistans and they hear Azan five times a day and also there is widespread namaz ba jama'at evrywhere but nobody has done anything about that either.
Does this sound equal? That is killing non-Muslims and Namaz and azan etc.?
Some educated MD (Syed Nadeem Ahsan, in the latest Journal of APPNA NEW JERSEY)living in the West thinks that way and wants to chide the Muslims for Namaz and Azan. As a aMuslim I would welcome the non-Muslims to do their pooja/prayer in their own way in the meetings of APPNA, and promise not to discredit them for doing so. I think that would be in keeping with being secular as wella s democratic.
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did you attend any recent APPNA meeting? I haven't so far in USA
Yes I have attended some meetings but to tell you the truth as I have grown older and more religious, the Association has grown "younger" (Less number of my age) and less religious.
I was in the meeting that started it all in New Jersy 1975, so I know the history well
Sometimes they do not do Jama't but many times they do
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