In Kuwait, Indian Products Pulled From Shelves Over Prophet Remarks

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Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a protest against comments denounced as "Islamophobic".​

At the supermarket, sacks of rice and shelves of spices were covered with plastic sheets

Kuwait City:
A Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products from its shelves even as Iran became the latest Middle Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row grew on Monday over a BJP official's remarks about the Prophet Mohammed.

Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a protest against comments denounced as "Islamophobic".

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries in the region, as well as the influential Al-Azhar University in Cairo, have condemned the remarks by a spokeswoman for the BJP, who has since been suspended.

At the supermarket just outside Kuwait City, sacks of rice and shelves of spices and chilies were covered with plastic sheets. Printed signs in Arabic read: "We have removed Indian products".

"We, as a Kuwaiti Muslim people, do not accept insulting the Prophet," Nasser Al-Mutairi, CEO of the store, told AFP. An official at the chain said a company-wide boycott was being considered.

Comments by Bharatiya Janata Party spokeswoman Nupur Sharma have sparked furore among Muslims.

Ms Sharma's remarks during a televised debate last week were blamed for clashes in Uttar Pradesh and prompted demands for her arrest.

Anger spread overseas to Muslim countries about the remarks.

The BJP on Sunday suspended Ms Sharma for expressing "views contrary to the party's position" and said it "respects all religions".

Ms Sharma said on Twitter that her comments had been in response to "insults" made against the Hindu god Shiva.

"If my words have caused discomfort or hurt religious feelings of anyone whatsoever, I hereby unconditionally withdraw my statement," she said.

'Incitement to religious hatred'


On Sunday, Qatar demanded that India apologise for the "Islamophobic" comments, as Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu visited the gas-rich Gulf state in a bid to bolster trade.

Iran followed Qatar and Kuwait by summoning the Indian ambassador to protest in the name of "the government and the people", state news agency IRNA said late on Sunday.

Al-Azhar University, one of Islam's most important institutions, said the comments were "the real terrorism" and "could plunge the entire world into deadly crisis and wars".

The Saudi-based Muslim World League said the remarks could "incite hatred", while Saudi Arabia's General Presidency of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque called them a "heinous act".

The row follows anger across the Muslim world in 2020 after French President Emmanuel Macron defended the right of a satirical magazine to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in October 2020 by a Chechen refugee after showing the cartoons to his class in a lesson on free speech. Images of the Prophet are strictly forbidden in Islam.

In further criticism of the Ms Sharma, the Gulf Cooperation Council, an umbrella group for the six Gulf countries, "condemned, rejected and denounced" her comments.

Bahrain also welcomed the BJP's decision to suspend Ms Sharma over "provocation to Muslims' feelings and incitement to religious hatred".

Gulf countries are a major destination for India's overseas workers, accounting for 8.7 million out of a worldwide total of 13.5 million, foreign ministry figures show.

They are also big importers of produce from India and elsewhere, with Kuwait importing 95 percent of its food according to the trade minister.

Kuwaiti media have reported that the government asked New Delhi for an exemption from India's surprise ban on wheat exports over food security and inflation worries.

In Kuwait, Indian Products Pulled From Shelves Over Prophet Remarks

A Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products from its shelves even as Iran became the latest Middle Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row grew on Monday over a BJP official's remarks about the Prophet Mohammed.

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Guess stupid, dirty Indians will never learn.

 

[RescueRanger]

Lesson here folks:

 

[PradoTLC]

Good stuff

Ban all Indians

 

[General Dong]

Interesting to see if this ban reaches the macro level. Currently at the store level, it will hardly have any effect since it is indian and other SA dispora who buy Indian products. I dont think they will stop.

 

[khail007]

I Hope, such Indian filth will come to their senses.

In the future, the trade to be increased with other Muslim countries to overcome the Indian arrogance that they are irreplaceable. It is evident that the shelves in UAE grocery stores and supermarkets are welcoming Bangladeshi products. Bangladesh is offering good healthy competition to Indian products in terms of quality/price/packaging.

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

They can't return these products. Better to sell or consume them than waste them.

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

Shaan Masala and Tapal!

 

[my2cents]

Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a protest against comments denounced as "Islamophobic".​

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At the supermarket, sacks of rice and shelves of spices were covered with plastic sheets

Kuwait City:
A Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products from its shelves even as Iran became the latest Middle Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row grew on Monday over a BJP official's remarks about the Prophet Mohammed.

Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a protest against comments denounced as "Islamophobic".

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries in the region, as well as the influential Al-Azhar University in Cairo, have condemned the remarks by a spokeswoman for the BJP, who has since been suspended.

At the supermarket just outside Kuwait City, sacks of rice and shelves of spices and chilies were covered with plastic sheets. Printed signs in Arabic read: "We have removed Indian products".

"We, as a Kuwaiti Muslim people, do not accept insulting the Prophet," Nasser Al-Mutairi, CEO of the store, told AFP. An official at the chain said a company-wide boycott was being considered.

Comments by Bharatiya Janata Party spokeswoman Nupur Sharma have sparked furore among Muslims.

Ms Sharma's remarks during a televised debate last week were blamed for clashes in Uttar Pradesh and prompted demands for her arrest.

Anger spread overseas to Muslim countries about the remarks.

The BJP on Sunday suspended Ms Sharma for expressing "views contrary to the party's position" and said it "respects all religions".

Ms Sharma said on Twitter that her comments had been in response to "insults" made against the Hindu god Shiva.

"If my words have caused discomfort or hurt religious feelings of anyone whatsoever, I hereby unconditionally withdraw my statement," she said.

'Incitement to religious hatred'


On Sunday, Qatar demanded that India apologise for the "Islamophobic" comments, as Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu visited the gas-rich Gulf state in a bid to bolster trade.

Iran followed Qatar and Kuwait by summoning the Indian ambassador to protest in the name of "the government and the people", state news agency IRNA said late on Sunday.

Al-Azhar University, one of Islam's most important institutions, said the comments were "the real terrorism" and "could plunge the entire world into deadly crisis and wars".

The Saudi-based Muslim World League said the remarks could "incite hatred", while Saudi Arabia's General Presidency of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque called them a "heinous act".

The row follows anger across the Muslim world in 2020 after French President Emmanuel Macron defended the right of a satirical magazine to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in October 2020 by a Chechen refugee after showing the cartoons to his class in a lesson on free speech. Images of the Prophet are strictly forbidden in Islam.

In further criticism of the Ms Sharma, the Gulf Cooperation Council, an umbrella group for the six Gulf countries, "condemned, rejected and denounced" her comments.

Bahrain also welcomed the BJP's decision to suspend Ms Sharma over "provocation to Muslims' feelings and incitement to religious hatred".

Gulf countries are a major destination for India's overseas workers, accounting for 8.7 million out of a worldwide total of 13.5 million, foreign ministry figures show.

They are also big importers of produce from India and elsewhere, with Kuwait importing 95 percent of its food according to the trade minister.

Kuwaiti media have reported that the government asked New Delhi for an exemption from India's surprise ban on wheat exports over food security and inflation worries.

In Kuwait, Indian Products Pulled From Shelves Over Prophet Remarks

A Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products from its shelves even as Iran became the latest Middle Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row grew on Monday over a BJP official's remarks about the Prophet Mohammed.

www.ndtv.com

Guess stupid, dirty Indians will never learn.

Your comment is equally as bad and shows your upbringing.

 

[One_Nation]

She has backtracked on her comments now. I knew it Indians can never stand up to such pressure that can lead to big monetary loss.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1533422867458629632

 

[Binod]

How many super markets they have anyway

 

[El Sidd]

Indians previously stated their desire to nuke Islam's holiest sites in Saudi Arabia.

 

[Super Falcon]

What I don't understand is what she said about Mohammed and the Koran is true is it not?

She quoted from the Koran directly.

She quoted wrongly there is no such things she is just mis using what Quran says only alim can let us know not such Hindu

 

[hussain0216]

Sure she did, did Mohammed not marry a 6 year old girl? And then consummated the marriage when she was 9? Is that a lie?

Or are you saying the Koran is a book of lies? And you don't even know your own holy book?

It's not from the Quran, the Quran is the word of God, it has been preserved from the beginning

Then you have hadiths, hadiths are a collection of sayings attributed to the prophet, but the collection of hadiths are ranging and some are verified, others are NOT verified, they were collected by various people


A good rule of thumb is if any contradict the Quran then they are to be ignored and disregarded



There is no mention of the prophets marriage to Aisha anywhere in the Quran, and the Hadith that mentions the marriage and her age is attributed to a Iraqi guy, a few hundred years after the prophets passing and has no basis in islam or Islamic history





But it is now used to target both Muslims and the prophet hence so much anger

 

[Super Falcon]

Sure she did, did Mohammed not marry a 6 year old girl? And then consummated the marriage when she was 9? Is that a lie?

Or are you saying the Koran is a book of lies? And you don't even know your own holy book?

Where did you heard it these are just lies and there are no such thing in Quran the fake propaganda I's done did you ever recite a Quran?

PROPHET MOHAMMAD P.B.U.H stop the killing when Jews use to kill daughters when they born he gave rights to woman and in Islam it is prohibited to marry a girl less than 16 to 18 yrs old


Do some research than talk don't go on rumours we have many on your but we don't bring them because we know we are hearing rumors and our religion prohabits bad things for any one

 

[RescueRanger]

Sure she did, did Mohammed not marry a 6 year old girl? And then consummated the marriage when she was 9? Is that a lie?

Or are you saying the Koran is a book of lies? And you don't even know your own holy book?

@waz @PakSword @Jango - another one please.

There is no such mention in the Quran - the fact that you confuse the Quran with ONE misquoted Hadith shows you have no knowledge of Islam and are just an illiterate troll - but since you are insisting of barking like a rabid dog -

- This piece of misinformation has led to the wrong view that child marriage has the sanction of Islam.

It must be noted that establishing the authenticity of hadiths, the narrators’ circumstances and the conditions at that time have to be correlated with historical facts.

There is only one hadith by Hisham which suggests the age of Hazrat Aisha as being nine when she came to live with her husband.

Many authentic hadiths also show that Hisham’s narration is incongruous with several historical facts about the Prophet’s life, on which there is consensus.

With reference to scholars such as Umar Ahmed Usmani, Hakim Niaz Ahmed and Habibur Rehman Kandhulvi, I would like to present some arguments in favour of the fact that Hazrat Aisha was at least 18 years old when her nikah was performed and at least 21 when she moved into the Prophet’s house to live with him.

According to Umar Ahmed Usmani, in Surah Al-Nisa, it is said that the guardian of the orphans should keep testing them, until they reach the age of marriage, before returning their property (4:6).

From this scholars have concluded that the Quran sets a minimum age of marriage which is at least puberty. Since the approval of the girl has a legal standing, she cannot be a minor.

Hisham bin Urwah is the main narrator of this hadith. His life is divided into two periods: in 131A.H. the Madani period ended, and the Iraqi period started, when Hisham was 71 years old.

Hafiz Zehbi has spoken about Hisham’s loss of memory in his later period. His students in Madina, Imam Malik and Imam Abu Hanifah, do not mention this hadith. Imam Malik and the people of Madina criticised him for his Iraqi hadiths.

All the narrators of this hadith are Iraqis who had heard it from Hisham. Allama Kandhulvi says that the words spoken in connection with Hazrat Aisha’s age were tissa ashara, meaning 19, when Hisham only heard (or remembered), tissa, meaning nine.

Maulana Usmani thinks this change was purposely and maliciously made later.

Historian Ibn Ishaq in his Sirat Rasul Allah has given a list of the people who accepted Islam in the first year of the proclamation of Islam, in which Hazrat Aisha’s name is mentioned as Abu Bakr’s “little daughter Aisha”. If we accept Hisham’s calculations, she was not even born at that time.

Some time after the death of the Prophet’s first wife, Hazrat Khadija, Khawla suggested to the Prophet that he get married again, to a bikrun, referring to Hazrat Aisha (Musnad Ahmed). In Arabic bikrun is used for an unmarried girl who has crossed the age of puberty and is of marriageable age. The word cannot be used for a six-year-old girl.

Some scholars think that Hazrat Aisha was married off so early because in Arabia girls mature at an early age. But this was not a common custom of the Arabs at that time.

According to Allama Kandhulvi, there is no such case on record either before or after Islam.

Neither has this ever been promoted as a Sunnah of the Prophet. The Prophet married off his daughters Fatima at 21 and Ruquiyya at 23.

Besides, Hazrat Abu Bakr, Aisha’s father, married off his eldest daughter Asma at the age of 26.

Hazrat Aisha narrates that she was present on the battlefield at the Battle of Badar (Muslim).

This leads one to conclude that Hazrat Aisha moved into the Prophet’s house in 1 A.H. But a nine-year-old could not have been taken on a rough and risky military mission.

In 2 A.H, the Prophet refused to take boys of less than 15 years of age to the battle of Uhud. Would he have allowed a 10-year-old girl to accompany him? But Anas reported that he saw Aisha and Umme Sulaim carrying goatskins full of water and serving it to the soldiers (Bukhari).

Umme Sulaim and Umme Ammara, the other women present at Uhud, were both strong, mature women whose duties were the lifting of the dead and injured, treating their wounds, carrying water in heavy goatskins, supplying ammunition and even taking up the sword.

Hazrat Aisha used the kunniat, the title derived from the name of a child, of Umme Abdullah after her nephew and adopted son. If she was six when her nikah was performed, she would have been only eight years his senior, hardly making him eligible for adoption.

Also, a little girl could not have given up on ever having her own child and used an adopted child’s name for her kunniat.

Hazrat Aisha’s nephew Urwah once remarked that he was not surprised about her amazing knowledge of Islamic law, poetry and history because she was the wife of the Prophet and the daughter of Abu Bakr.

If she was eight when her father migrated, when did she learn poetry and history from him?

There is consensus that Hazrat Aisha was 10 years younger than her elder sister Asma, whose age at the time of the hijrah, or migration to Madina, was about 28. It can be concluded that Hazrat Aisha was about 18 years old at migration.

On her moving to the Prophet’s house, she was a young woman at 21.

Hisham is the single narrator of the hadith whose authenticity is challenged, for it does not correlate with the many historical facts of the time.

Scholarly sources referenced in compiling this post:

https://www.islamweb.net/ehajj/printarticle.php?id=38813&lang=E

Aisha (ra): The Case for an Older Age in Sunni Hadith Scholarship | Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research

Could Aisha (RA) have been 18? Guest Author Arnold Yasin Mol argues that there is discrepancy with the hadith source stating that she was 9.

yaqeeninstitute.org

https://hameem.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Age-of-Aisha.nov2010.pdf