if theses great muslims lived in america they wouldn't have been tortured, imprisoned and banned like muslim leaders in the middle east have done to them. do you know these great muslim leaders suffered oppression and imprisonment and in some case death under muslim rule oppression, what has changed today in the middle east? nothing.
"al-Bukhari (d. 256/870), the great hadith scholar, was accused of being a Rationalist and expelled and exiled, dying in the ward of his relatives, homeless and penniless.
Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 543/1148), dismissed, imprisoned, and exiled
Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751/1350) and Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328), both tortured and imprisoned. Ibn Taymiyya died in prison.
Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198), imprisoned and exiled
Al-Nisa'i (d. 309/915), beaten and died from his injuries in jail
al-Tabari (d. 310/923), Muslim historian, was persecuted by fanatic Hanbalis; his books were eventually burned, and grave desecrated by enemies
al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277), fired from teaching post and banned to Damascus, then to Egypt, fired again, arrested and imprisoned, dying poor and lonely in his father's home."
