Every
while, we see some angry folks of the Muslim communities in western countries
go out in an angry mode vandalizing property and terrifying people, and for
what? For a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad or as a “reaction” to a mere threat of
burning the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, as we saw on news recently in
Sweden. The irony is that those Muslims cannot have the very freedom, they
express in secular western countries, in their original Islamic countries
because the government will shot them dead. The political move done by
right-wing Racist Christian groups seek to agitate these intolerant Islamists
in order to create an Islamic-Christian clash, in order to help Trump and
Republicans in America, and such radicals in Europe, before elections. The
radicals on both sides have something in common, and that is both consider
Secularism to be against God-and-Allah, and for that reason we see Trump and
his Republicans insist on ignoring the Wall of Separation between religion and
state, widely known and explained by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and
constitutional commentators, in order to bring the myth of Judeo-Christian
Constitution of the United States into power. Islamists in the Middle East,
such as in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, etc.…’ welcome such a
move because it gives them the justification to argue that “as the West is
eager to bring their religious heritage to the public sector, so Muslims should
do more,” which is a disaster because already there is too much Islamization in
the Middle East that such a radical view of life is a threat to the universal
peace. No one should call me an #Islamophobe because I had an Islamic education
before moving to the United States, meaning that I was a Muslim and I have
studied the religion since my teenage years. However, there is something that
we all should cherish and promote and that is that we should separate between
attacking Muslims as a group of people, which should be rejected and condemned,
and attacking the violent, hateful, and backward theology of Islam, so
criticizing Islam as an idea should be encouraged and supported, just as we
criticize any idea in free societies. Now, I saw today on TV how Trump attacked
those who burn the American flag in protest, and Trump reminds me of the Islamists
who convert anything, magically, into a sacred thing, and the next time you try
to disapprove that thing or practice, they rush to accuse you of being
offensive to that thing which they call “Holy”. I don’t approve the burning of
the American flag because for me the flag represents the identity of the
American experience, but one of the bases of American freedoms is that people
can burn the flag and the constitution as well without being subject to any
punishment. Trump shares so much with those Islamists who shout hate and
violence against some individual or a group of people, simply because they burn
a copy of the Qur’an or drawing a caricature of Mohammed. Whether the
right-wing Christian is evil or not, they have the right to burn a book, any
book, even if it’s allegedly “written by God?”. If Allah is so jealous over
Mohammed or his Qur’an, why don’t the Islamists leave revenge and punishment to
Allah? They say that God-Allah controls everything, so, why don’t you pray to
your God-Allah to show his power and send the Qur’an burners, let say, a
thunder or transform those who burn the Qur’an to monkeys? Or simply, go ahead
and burn a copy of the Bible, and everybody can go home happy. Obviously,
radical Christians and radical Muslims are using religious jealousies as a tool
for control and power. The more we ban one side from practicing one of the
normal practices of freedom, and we might even dislike these practices, the
more we put our societies into a path of fear and distrust. Evil Jesus needs
Evil Mohammed and vice versa, in order to spread the venom, it is time for
Muslims to learn how to live in a free society, and if we ban Qur’an burnings,
we will ban Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, ban gay marriage, ban
cartoons, ban every sentiment that reflects the love of freedom. Islam is an
evil religion and it has killed Muslims more than any other group. It is time
that you learn peace and leave things to God-Allah, so if he intends to punish
anyone, it is not your job to do so.
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