Well, the answer might not be that obvious to many Muslims. In fact, many may even invocate Allah’s anger and curse on me for posing this serious question. Regardless, I still want to proceed and discuss one ‘positive’ aspect.
If this campaign has no overt advantages it has at least exposed the hypocrisy and Machiavellism of many ‘committed’ and ‘practising’ Muslims living in the West in general and the US in particular.
I single out, however, those who unashamedly call themselves (Ahlul Sunnah wal Jamaa), (Husbel Tahreer), (Al Salafiyeen) and the ‘jihadists’. Regardless of their slight theological and legal differences, they all believe in the same traditional interpretation of Islam including the necessity of establishing an ‘Islamic State’, the spread of Islam worldwide by this state, the superiority of Muslims politically as well as religiously, the loyalty of Muslims to Islam only and the disloyalty to ‘kafrs’ non-Muslims - the principle of ‘al walaa wal baraa’.
Their literature, lectures, propaganda materials, websites etc all agree on one thing: there is a declared and ongoing war between ‘alkurf wal islam’ (Non-Muslims –the Jews and Christians- and Muslims). This war had started on the same day the Prophet announced the message of Islam.
It has never stopped. They argue.
It has caused and led to all catastrophes and disasters suffered by Muslims such as the collapse of Othman Empire (or Khilafah, as they fondly call it), founding of the Jewish state; the non-declared occupation of many Muslim countries, and now the blatant occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
I do not share with them this interpretation of Islam, nor do I agree with them in their analysis of history or the current situation of Muslims. I believe they’re wrong and they know they’re wrong because what they do prove it.
Back to this business of ‘burning the Quran’.
Well, these hypocrites believe it to be part and parcel of the on-going war on Islam and Muslims by ‘al yahood wal nasara’ (Jews and Christians). They also believe that the United States and Britain –in fact all western countries- are enemies of Islam. The idea of burning the Quran is only an expression of this hatred and war.
Well, I have a few questions I want put to them, and I dare them to answer even a single one -according to their interpretation of Islam:
1) Why are you still living among the same very enemies of Islam?
2) Why are still holding dear to your hearts their ‘kafr’ citizenships and passports?
3) Why are you still allowing yourselves to become part of these enemies by becoming citizens of their countries and members of their societies?
4) What sort of God that allows you to become citizens of countries that –you say- are at war with Islam, killing Muslims and occupying their lands?
5) Why are you still allowing yourselves to be FED, CLOTHED and PROTECTED by the same very enemies of Islam and Muslims?
6) Why are still allowing yourselves to work (hard?) to build and develop the countries of the enemies of Islam and Muslims as you call them?
7) Why are still allowing yourselves to indirectly participate in killing Muslims and occupying their lands by working or running your businesses which requires you to pay TAX that makes up the bulk of these states’ revenues which are spent on the same very forces that are killing Muslims and occupying their lands as you claim?
8) Why are you still allowing yourselves to receive the well-fare (social security) payments from the governments of these countries that you say are hostile to Muslims knowing that this money is ‘haram’ (according to your Islam) as it’s sourced from everything ‘haram’ such as alcohol manufacturing, pig farms and meats, gambling, sex-industry (brothels) etc etc.
9) Why do you use double standard in dealing with the issue of ‘loyalty to Islam and disloyalty to ‘kurf’ by allowing yourselves to be LOYAL to these enemies by acquiring their citizenships which oblige you to ‘be loyal and respectful’ to and of their constitutions and laws (read the citizenship pledges of these countries). And yet you declare Muslim leaders as traitors and renegades because of their ‘loyalty’ to the same enemies?!!!
10) etc etc – many, many other questions that can be thought of which need answers. No one of you so far dared to answer any of these questions that I put to you on many occasions.
One Jew has more value and worthiness than them all. This Jew is Rabbi Avraham Greenberg who burnt his Israeli passport as a protest against his government’s massacre in Gaza.
Will these hypocrites and serial liars show some of this man’s dignity and self-respect, or even some of his faith and conviction by burning their American or British or Australian passports and citizenships?
Will they? I don’t believe so.
To sum up. It’s not enough for you to boast falsely to be ‘good’ Muslims, defenders of Islam in the West!! Organisers of Muslims’ rallies marching down the streets of the capital cities of the West condemning the ‘wave of hatred for Islam’! Don’t you preach that Paradise is bristled with hardships and sacrifices? Why you don’t go back to your original countries where you will find all these things that will prepare you to enter Paradise. Not prepared to do this? Then you’re nothing but a bunch of hypocrites and opportunists.
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