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During the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), affiliation was due to Islam (اسلام) and Eaman (ايمان). Thus they identified people as either Muslims (believers) or Kufar (non-believers). Then the time came when they called people “Zahidoon” (زاهدون) or “Abidoon” (عابدون), due to their Zuhd (زهد).

Perception in the West is that “Islam” is against the “Western” world, and these views have been further intensified after the incidents following September 11. In the Muslim world, there is deep frustration over the “West’ and west is perceived as enemy of Islam based on long historical experiences of crusades, invasions, colonialism, support for Orientalist, fall of Caliphate in Turkey, Palestinian occupation, Gulf wars, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan etc. Both of these points of views have to be debated ..