Sejumlah Serdadu Amerika di Irak Menyatakan Diri Masuk Islam - Ternyata gambaran Islam yang dipublikasikan oleh media-media Barat, jauh berbeda sama sekali dari realitas Islam sebenarnya. Setidaknya hal itu diperlihat kan oleh sejumlah prajurit laki-laki dan wanita AS yang bertugas di Irak, ketika mereka menyatakan diri masuk Islam. Lalu mereka menikah dengan orang-orang Islam Irak. Walaupun pernikahan itu ditentang oleh sejumlah warga setempat.
“Para tentara AS itu telah menyadari bahwa ajaran Islam sama sekali berbeda dengan informasi-informasi yang diprogandakan oleh media-media Barat,” lanjut Sheikh Mahmoud.
“Setelah bergaul setiap hari dengan warga Irak serta pengalaman berinteraksi dengan kalangan Muslim dari dekat di negeri yang terkoyak perang ini, banyak serdadu AS yang menyatakan keinginannya masuk Islam,” ujar Sheikh Mahmoud el-Samydaei, anggota Majelis Ulama Islam Irak, pada IslamOnline Rabu (13/8/2003).
Ulama Islam itu mengingatkan kembali para perwira AS yang telah masuk Islam agar memelihara agama itu sampai akhir hayat. Sebab orang yang mati tanpa membawa Islam, ujar Sheikh Mahmoud, matinya akan sia-sia. Para muallaf AS itu mendengarkan wejangan tersebut dengan terisak-isak, mengingat banyak masyarakatnya mati tanpa mengetahui sedikitpun tentang Islam.
Seorang perwira AS yang mendatangi Pengadilan Urusan Sipil di distrik el-Karkh, Baghdad pekan ini menyatakan; “Saya bersaksi bahwa tiada Tuhan selain Allah dan bahwa Muhammad adalah utusanNya.”
Perwira AS itu kemudian menikah dengan wanita Irak, dr. Samar Ahmed yang pernah dijumpainya ketika dia bertugas menjaga Medicine City Hospital. Dia memilih Islam, kata perwira AS itu, lantaran keyakinannya yang penuh terhadap kebenaran Islam. “Saya masuk Islam bukan hanya lantaran untuk menikahi wanita Irak,” tukasnya.
Berdasarkan ajaran Islam, seorang pria non-Muslim dilarang menikahi seorang wanita Islam.
Hakim Agama Abd el-Azeim Mohammad Gawad el-Rasafi merestui pernikahan itu. Abd el-Azeim menegaskan bahwa pernikahan itu merupakan peristiwa pertama, seorang wanita Irak menikah dengan serdadu AS yang masuk Islam. Kepada IslamOnline Abd el-Azeim mengatakan, tak satupun agama di dunia, menghalangi pernikahan tersebut. Walaupun begitu sejumlah warga Irak menentang pernikahan antar etnis itu. (stn/iol/eramuslim)
U.S. Soldiers Discover Islam In Iraq
By Aws Al-Sharqy, IOL Correspondent
BAGHDAD, August 13 (IslamOnline.net) – Discovering an Islam that is totally different from the one smeared in their media, a number of American servicemen and women were said to have embraced Islam and married Iraqis.
"After daily interactions with Iraqi citizens and a first-hand experience in dealing with Muslims in the war-ravaged country, many U.S. soldiers willingly accepted Islam, " Sheikh Mahmoud el-Samydaei, member of Iraq’s Muslim Scholars Society, told IslamONline.net Wednesday, August 13.
"The soldiers came to realize that the teachings of Islam are absolutely different from fabricated information propagated by the western media," he added.
The Iraqi scholar recalled crying Christian-turned-Muslim American army officer who lamented that his folks died without knowing anything about Islam.
Not First
A U.S. officer visited the Civil Affairs Court in the Baghdad district of el-Karkh earlier this week to declare: "I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is His messenger."
The man later married Iraqi doctor Samar Ahmed whom we met while standing guard in Medicine City Hospital.
The American officer confirmed that he embraced Islam out of absolute conviction and not just to marry the Iraqi woman he fell in love with.
According to Islamic teachings, a none-Muslim man is not allowed to marry a Muslim woman.
Judge Abd el-Azeim Mohammad Gawad el-Rasafi blessed the marriage, asserting it was the "first time an Iraqi girl would marry an American soldier who accepted Islam."
He told IOL he found no religious ground to obstruct the marriage, which was opposed by several Iraqi citizens.
"The assertion of the American soldier that he embraced Islam of his free will and not just to marry the Iraqi doctor convinced us to approve the marriage," said Judge el-Rasafi.
Convinced
Although Samar declined to be interviewed, her colleague Doctor Bayda’a Mohammad Ahmed told IOL she had hard times with Iraqis who knew about the proposed marriage.
They accused her of marrying the American officer just to have a chance of going to the U.S. with him, said Bayda’a.
Defending her friend Samar, Bayda’a asserted she was the one who introduced him to Islam and encourage him to accept it.
She found he was a good husband and did not have in min traveling to the States, said the fellow doctor.
No
Fayez Qadouri, one of several opponents, said the opposition had nothing to do with the fact that the officer was American but rather because he was "an occupier of our land."
"He should renounce his country’s occupation of Iraq and either leave the country to desert the army for us to approve the marriage," he said.
There are some 145,000 U.S. and 11,000 British soldiers deployed across Iraq.
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