MUST READ: WHY IS THE WORLD AFRAID OF MUSLIMS?

Why Is The World Afraid Of Muslims?
by Tashbih Sayyed

A number of recent apologies made to the Muslims by non-Muslim leaders clearly indicate that the world has grown increasingly fearful of the Muslim rage. Political Islam, as is obvious by the reactions of the socio-cultural and political institutions in countries of Europe, Britain and the U.S. has come of age. It has been able to install itself in a position from where it can manipulate the host country’s social and political systems to its advantage. The significance of this achievement can’t be denied. Political Islam’s disabling fear has already deprived much of the West of its ability to stand up and defend its values.

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The fact that the world fears Muslims speaks volumes about the image of my co-religionists. The image is definitely not good. People do not fear GOOD. They fear EVIL. And Muslims have somehow have failed to convey to the world that they are good. And I am not surprised.

Muslims will have to pause and ponder as to why world does not respect them Why are not they loved instead of being afraid of? Why it is that more and more people in the world have this image of them being fanatical as a rule as compared to the adherents of other religions where fanaticism is an exception. Muslims will have to think as to why the communities that welcomed the Muslim immigrants with open arms are now afraid to see them living amongst them. According to a Swedish, Carl Berglund, Muslims have polarized the Swedish society. “Their religion is so stifling and unaccommodating. They expect us to accommodate their religion when they don’t respect our beliefs,” he said. Carl Berglund doesn’t want to live with the Muslims any more and wants them to be expelled from Sweden. He says that he is no longer afraid of Muslims. “We should stop being afraid of Muslims. This is our country, our world, and those who can't accommodate us, should get out of Sweden.”

France has also threatened to deport any Muslim leaders preaching extremist views, after fundamentalist Muslims won a strong voice in a new council to represent Islam in France. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said the council, which will represent the country's five million Muslims, would not be allowed to become a breeding ground for radical Islam. "Islamic law will not apply anywhere because it is not the law of the French republic. Any Imams whose views run contrary to the values of the republic will be deported," Sarkozy told Europe 1 radio.

Earlier, Britain revoked the citizenship of a radical Muslim cleric, Abu Hamza al-Masri, who praised the September 11 attacks, after banning him from preaching at his London mosque because of his extreme statements.

I am afraid that this fear of Muslims will result in a serious revulsion of Islam in the western society. Contrary to the claims by the political Islamist establishment that Islam is a peaceful faith, their deeds convey an altogether opposite sense – there is nothing peaceful in what is happening in the Muslim communities today and what Islamists are doing in the world. And the faith that the radical Islamists represent is a faith of “perpetual outrage.” And in the words of Thomas Jefferson, “I have judged other’s religions by their lives, for it is from our lives and not our words that our religions must be read.”


R.I.P. --- 1941-2007
Dr. Tashbih Sayyed


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