Islamic Renaissance Front, The Malaysian Insider
The Islamic Renaissance Front views the recent murders as good as conflict over the movie "Innocence of Muslims" with much dolour as good as bafflement.
All accessible facts suggest which "Innocence of Muslims" is not even the film. What is now good known about it was accessible in the widely circulated YouTube shave which ran for the total of the little 13-odd minutes. What is worse, most critics have been in agreement upon the film's definitely poor quality cheap sets, common actors, bad voice-overs as good as incomprehensible narrative all of which explains because no the single had even heard of the ostensible movie until Muslims motionless to have the bitch about it.
Indeed, the added tragedy is not so much which the movie is Islamophobic, which it obviously is, though which the nonessential attention given to it by angry Muslims, in the future gave the movie far some-more publicity than it deserves.
Why?
The question is why. What is at the back of the strong trend of Muslim hypersensitivity? For the protests is usually the single feeling out of large others before, whereby rank as well as file of Muslims take up public space to vigour the little form of censure, punishment or banning of the little product for insulting Islam. Rather than to reflect, come to terms or dialogue the tenor has mostly been to confront as good as suppress.
The most well-known box to date was the outcry over Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses". More recently there were the Danish cartoons. Even the rsther than good constructed "The Message", directed by Moustafa Akkad in 1976 with Anthony Quinn as the categorical actor, which did not portray the Prophet during all was deemed by most Muslims to be offensive. A Muslim o! rganisat ion staged the encircle opposite the Washington DC section of B'nai B'rith, melancholy to blow up the building as good as the inhabitants under the false belief which Quinn portrayed the Prophet.
We now witnessed the unnecessary deaths of dozens of trusting civilians as the outcome of violent protests which usually reinforced the twisted picture of Islam as the sacrament of violence as good as intolerance. It portrays the vicious face of the sacrament which was ostensible to be the sacrament of peace as good as compassion.
The West?
When the single observes the sermon closely, the single will find which what underlies the narrative is the sense of better as good as distrust upon being overwhelmed by what is mostly broadly termed as "the West". This view is an viewable delay of an earlier rancour opposite Western colonialism, which roughly all Muslim-majority countries currently experienced in the single form or another. Daily life in the age of globalisation as well has seen an increase of participation by Western products as good as political as good as informative values. Geopolitically, the participation of Western military forces in Muslim countries is all as well strong as good as overwhelming.
All this has somehow been noticed by Muslims as the sign which Islam is left behind, in the single way or another, as the civilisation. That in spin further reinforces the anxiety of powerlessness prior to fearful imaginations of the monolithic behemoth called "the West". From there, everything Islamic is juxtaposed opposite it, giving rise to the mood of scepticism opposite anything as good as everything which comes from the ostensible "West".
Towards honesty as good as dialogue
But the situation is not which simple. While there has been much decline in science as good as guidance in the Muslim world, which is undeniably tied to the history of colonial exploitation, Muslims contingency sense ! to take responsibility for the course of their own progress. Thus, rsther than than to boomerang in defensiveness opposite everything Western or offensive, there contingency be instead, an perspective of critical reflection as good as honesty to ideas.
Progress requires freedom, for no genuine guidance can proceed when energy is imposed from without upon what can be pronounced as good as heard. To welcome this is not to welcome or clear Islamophobic or extremist sentiments. It is rsther than to attest which extremist or Islamophobic sentiments have been best dealt with by dialogue, guidance as good as consolation rsther than than beast force or coercion.
Hate contingency be combated. Oppression contingency end. But Muslims will usually fail themselves if they proceed in the stupor of distrust as good as anger.
Islam is the sacrament of patience as good as compassion
There is nothing in Islam which says hate contingency be combated with some-more hate. Recall, when the Prophet Muhammad was usually beginning his mission, the lady placed faeces during his doorway in hatred of Islam. Muhammad endured the humiliation peacefully, conjunction choosing to retaliate in anger or violence, to exemplify which ethos of calm as good as care which tangible the eventual success of Islam in Mecca.
Conservative Muslims lend towards to courtesy such instances as unavoidable given which Muslims did not get in energy until Medina, though they forget the historical actuality which it was Muhammad's exemplary impression as the clear-headed personality in Mecca which constrained the Medinans to spin to him as an judge as good as personality for their fragmented city in the first place.
Calm as good as care indispensable in Malaysia too
Yesterday, thousands collected outward Masjid Jamek Kampung Baru as good as the US Embassy to protest the "Innocence of Muslims". Interestingly this saw members of the Isla! mist cel ebration (PAS) as good as the categorical statute Malay celebration (Umno) marching for the identical means for once, even prompting the Umno Youth chief to entice PAS to stick upon the statute coalition.
It is as well early to contend if this will lead to anything though it does exhibit again an age-old actuality about Malay politics, namely in how the vagueness of "Malay as good as Muslim unity" is used as the pretext to disremember other some-more concerned issues, such as socio-economic probity as good as multiracial solidarity. Emotions as good as passions reign forward of clear-headed rationale as good as tellurian values.
The Islamic Renaissance Front once again calls for all Muslims to concentration upon the executive agenda of Islam as good as which is the end of oppression as good as the investiture of the usually society whereby all citizens irrespective of race as good as believe have been treated with colour equally. Enough lives, time as good as bid have been squandered over this film. It is time to pierce upon as good as arise up.
* This Islamic Renaissance Front matter carries the names of Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa, Ahmad Fuad Rahmad, Fadiah Nadwa Fikri, Rizqi Mukhriz as good as Ehsan Shahwahid.
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