I was informed via Facebook that David Horowitz, another right wing conservative after Pat Robertson is pumped to start a week in different American schools and colleges to create awareness about Islamo-fascism among students. According to frontpage Mag,David says:
This October 22-26 I am declaring Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (information at terrorismawareness.org). I will hold demonstrations and protests, teach-ins and sit-ins on more than 100 college campuses. Our theme will be the Oppression of Women in Islam and the threat posed by the Islamic crusade against the West.
Folks, do you find something new? Atleast I don’t. Women are oppressed in Islam while West gave them so much freedom that they can even steal babies fro Womb. What all this guy trying to tell students that Islam doesn’t give freedom to women, women have no life and Islam loves tussles with every other nation who doesn’t follow Islam.
Being an experienced contributor(not a blogger!) on various online Islamic/non-Islamic/Technical/social forums, these things are not new for me. I have been contributing online on IRC and web forums for last 11 years. After Iraq war, I become regular to various online forums where non-muslims from different parts of the world used to contribute and comeup with same points which David is rasing again;now in the name of Islamo-fascism. So many times I had nothing to say in reply because so many things I didn’t know but had a good faith on my religion so was never trapped by those guys who used to badmouth Islam by using different offensive statements which I can’t even repeat here. As Allah says in Quran:
And the disbelievers planned, but Allah planned. And Allah is the best of planners(3:54)
Their organized online Islam bashing forced me to look into Quran and related material anyways. In 2002, my Ismaili Employer(Agha Khani) gave me a book named Muslim Christian Dialogue by H.M.Baagil. The title was temptive despite of I was too careless about all such things. For him it was nothing but garbage so I requested him to give this book which he gave happily. I read that book and liked it but then I didn’t read it again as I had no such interest in all such things. In 2003 during Iraq war, I participated heavily on different IRC political and religious channels where majority of non-Muslims were attacking Islamic ideology like Jihad etc. If there were some Muslims online, they rather had holier than thou attitude and kept busy in Shia,Sunni/Who’s Kafir or Who’s not stuff while on other hand non-Muslims were united regardless of they were Jews or Christians who always considered each othe enemy in case of Jesus(AS). At that time I had not read the following verse in Quran but later when I read, it recalled everything which I had gone thru back in 2003. Allah(SWT) says:
O you who have believed, take not those who have taken your religion in ridicule and amusement among the ones who were given the Scripture before you nor the disbelievers as allies. And fear Allah, if you should [truly] be believers. (5:57)
Trust me guys, I was just speechless and also thanking Allah. Why thanking? because Allah Himself was proving his words true infront of my eyes. Since I am talking about this, I also tell you that there are so many things which later I read in Quran and Allah(SWT) gave practical example of verses to me. Incase you’re wondering, as I told you that I have participated a lot on various forums. Some of them are local too, the users and topic posters said so many things in their comments or post that it made me surprised that how the attitude of people in past is not changed even in this modern computer age and after encountering various instances, I had believed that Allah knew better than us about Human attitude that’s why He presented such things in form of Quran which makes one believe that Quran was sent for all times and Human is still living in the days of ignorance(Jahiliya).
Got distracted, as usual :-). So I was saying talking about David’s awareness week. I would like to discuss two points here:
- Outcome of such movements/campaigns
- How serious these non-Muslims should be taken.
Anti-Islamic movements/campaigns: This is not the first time neither last time. The movement against Islam was started right in the life of Prophet Muhammad(Saw) when an Arab Musaylima Kazzab declared himself a prophet and attracted many people as well. Musaylima stayed alive even after death of our Prophet(saw) but like his ancestors Nimrod,Hamaan, phararoah , he also got defeated and today noone exists who remembers him in good names. After him hundreds of plans were made against Islam but all went fruit since Allah is the best planner.
The incident of 9/11 did scare lots of Muslims about their own survival and Islam because the entire world was made to believe that Islam should be removed from face of earth(Godforbid). Bush chanted the slogan of Crusade and invaded Afghanistan. Muslims were attacked all over the world, thus it created a chaos in 2001. America’s right wingers started modern crusade by labeling it as war on terror, as it’s said in Urdu, Purana maal nai packing mey(Old stuff in new wrapper), the war was started against Islam which they say the last fight after communism. The results were entirely opposite that is, more and more Non-Muslims become Muslims in various part of the world and those who were just Muslim by birth either become true and genuine practised Muslims or started study Islam slowly. I belong to 2nd category of such Muslims. We see people like Yvonne Riddley accepted Islam after spending few time under Taliban control and became Muslim and then we see guys like Yousuf Yuhanna became Muhammad Yousuf and Singer Junaid Jamshed become preacher of Islam. Obviously both Junaid and Yousuf were not abducted by Talibans neither they were used to join online forums like me but what was actual the outcome of such lobbying that it made common ignorant man like me to think about religion. I was not aware that Women rights have been discussed in Surah-AnNisa, I never knew what and where it was discussed Jihad, I was not aware that Surah taubah’s initial surahs actually dealing with Hudebiya treaty rather giving Muslims free hand to kill non-Muslims as non-Muslims do propaganda specially people of Books while they never ever paid attention how their own Book(Bible) was altered with poisonous verses. Hence Islam was become such a hot cake for every Tom,Dick and Harry that everyone who despises it start talking about it. Anti-Islam policy makers who also used Muslims in US or abroad who were already not aware of Islam properly or wanted to run away from practised Islam, were used by them. Such kind of lot is called as Liberals,Seculars or Humanist these days. How they were used or being used, you would have to read this RAND Report which is actually a guidelines for implementors who actually used such Muslims and how then such educated Muslims react, you can experience it easily on this blog post which was actually made by a very learned man and a thinker. *sgh*- An example of how organized media campaign can ruin a person even if he’s a degree holder or some award winner. Local leftist blogs like this and this are just few examples among many how desi minds are being manipulated by West.
If you go thru such sites thoroughly(which offcourse will take time!) then you would realize that the idealogy they are trying to preach and ideology of Horowitz is quite identical that is based on Ignorance.
Should we get worried about people like David? Offcourse Not! Why? because there is a saying that preaching begins from Home. What does it mean? it means educate yourself first! that is, if you are willing to communicate non-Muslims or such Muslims then you should have idea about what are you talking about, if you don’t know then atleast consider bad thing bad rather just agreeing with them because you re empty. I am not a scholar nor a genuine practised Muslim but I think i do try to call spade a spade. Many times I would be wrong, fewer times I would have said something right but unless you don’t consider a sin a sin, you r just putting your faith at risk.
Few facebook users has organized a worldwide event named OCT 24th- WEAR GREEN against Islamo-Fascism Week.
Contributors have been asked to wear any green stuff(I don’t know why!!) to oppose David’s lame movement. The point is, will wearing any green stuff going to make any difference among your peers who think negative about Islam or are we going to CONVINCE David his ideology is wrong? If it’s to convince David about Islam then I don’t think it’s gonna work anyway. The only way to defeat people like David to educate your own Muslim pals and THEN to non-Muslims about the real spirit. Instead of condemning what David is babling everywheere, we better need to talk our locals or condemn their activities which is not different than David. Now what’s the difference between points raised by David and points being raised here and other two blogs I mentioned above? they also consider students of madrassahs are terrorists, David says same by declaring them crusadors. Our these fellow Muslims protest why women wear Hijab or Burqa and it’s sign of opression and obstacle in progress, David says same. How stupid would it be if I oppose elements like David and then favor something similar just because it was not said by a David?
Wearing green stuff only and not actually trying to work on root cause is just wastage of time. If you think you’re not capable enough to talk abou Islam with your peers, don’t worry, start reading Islam yourself as it would be the greatest contribution by you for Muslims because once you start doing that, you and other Muslims will not need to get worried about people like David, Irshad Manji, Ayah Harsi Ali or Tasleema Nasreen.
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