Muhammad Salih Al-Munaj jid is a well-known Saudi cleric who has a large following in Canada and the West. Like other so-called Islamic scholars, he maintains an active presence on the Internet, which he uses as a platform to tell young Muslim men and women how to lead proper Islamic lives.
His Saudi-based Islamic web portal, Islam Q& A, caters to Muslim youth not just in English, but Mandarin, Cantonese, Turkish, Urdu, French, Spanish, Russian, Uyghur and of course Arabic. .... It is fascinating to see how medieval-minded scholars serving a dictatorial theocracy .... are shaping the mindset of a segment of Canadian youth.
.... Someone asked: "Can a Muslim be a sincere friend to a kaafir [non-Muslim]? Sheikh Al-Munajjid replied clearly: "Praise be to Allah. It is not permissible for a Muslim to make friends with a mushrik, or to take him as a close friend, because Islam calls on us to forsake the kaafirs and to disavow them, because they worship someone other than Allah." [National Post] Read more
