Muhanad Habeeb Alsemawee
2013 / 4 / 1
The Middle East explodes once again! But this time because of a "Bad and tacky" film posted on YouTube, depicting Prophet Muhammad in a brazen state. It is a moment that forewarns evil omen... this is the commentary of the psychological media professor in Los Angeles Stewart Vischof after what had happened of demonstrations and agitation, still their echoes continue in various parts of the world, especially in East Asian countries, some of them reached to an unjustified end ever, incarnated in the killing and wounding of many people (20 dead and 200 injured) as well as the attack on some of Western embassies and the sabotage of a lot of public and private properties.
Of course, the rank of prophecy for Muslims is sacred, not subject to doubt, and if abused, whether through criticism or ridicule and sarcasm, would be totally unacceptable, and will raise ignition of anger inside any Muslim… But there is a difference between anger and rage! According to what Barton Goldsmith, a psychologist and one of the most popular therapists in America, says. What a lot of Muslims did in these demonstrations is only a rage and an unacceptable scream. They forget that the powerful person is the one who "controls himself when angry," as the great Prophet says, peace be upon him.
Initially, the stand of the reaction against criticism on religion is not really confined to Muslims. All Judaism and Christianity followers have unified positions against disbelief, the words of the female researcher Rene’ Karnfinkel echo the theme. But this position takes multiple appearances, different faces, and various embodiments. They all go, in their entirety, to the personality that everyone holds and how it has been formed in addition to the range of his/ her understanding, after that, to the Sharia and religion, and how he/she defends them.
The Muslims, who demonstrated against the film and its producer, raised the slogan “Except The Messenger of God" in a reference that the Apostle represents a red line for them and should not be overridden, as a person, by others. The slogan and its words seem, at the first glance, to be sound and impeccable. It also hides a legitimate meaning beyond objection. But an in-depth reading to its content together with a speculation and a meditation to the conditions of those who hold it, and an extrapolate to their behavior lead us immediately to a revision to the minds of its holders and the reality over their carrying that slogan, which will be through considering the course of action they hold and their actual mobility in their lives that should be like a mirror and genuine embodiment of the phrase "Except The Messenger of God".
In my viewpoint, the holders of the slogan are all deceivers. They have a lot of contradictory attitudes especially if we deeply investigate what they did towards other stands they should adopt, which goes in line with the motto "Except The Messenger of God", but they, on the contrary, abused not only the Prophet, but also the Islamic religion as a whole and the reputation of all Muslims through:
First: the demagogic behavior shown in these demonstrations and what they sent of negative messages to the world about the barbarism, some of them reflected, and the practice of violence and recklessness, which made others in the West dedicate the stereotype idea that they already have about Islam and Muslims, in addition to their pretend to forget the issue that Muslims marched for.
Second: Their behavior before these demonstrations, shown through the attitudes they reflected towards the overall international, Arab, and regional issues, especially with regard to their support to terrorism and its leaderships in the world, as it confirmed by Thomas Friedman who believed that 50% of Muslims have applauded to those who conducted the bombings of September 11 and all the actions killing against the West, while 50% strongly condemned the operation. In a calculation Mr. Friedman did about the number of Muslims in the world and the level of age, he came up with a result that “approximately 120 million Muslims are simply suicide bombs”, as the Japanese researcher Satoshi Kanazawa stated.
Even if we assume that the number Mr. Friedman estimated is incorrect and exaggerated, which is possible and conceivable, but we cannot overlook the large number of Muslims who support terrorist operations and the so-called "jihad" and the false "jihadist operations" targeted innocent people, children, elderly people, women as it happened and still happening in Iraq.
Before we examine the reality of the motto holders, we should emphasize that the demonstrations took place in the Arab world and the west were not all subversive terrorist foolish ones. Many of the demonstrations were peaceful and civilized. They did not turn to violence or inflect destruction on public and private properties nor trespass the others or murder an American or any Western citizen. But there are demonstrations which were closer to madness than calmness and urbanization. The recent demonstrations led to:
1. Presentation a bad image over Islam by those who have used violence in demonstrations while they were raising Islamic slogans and banners.
2. Confirmation to the stereotype image of Muslims by the West who find in it groups practicing violence with no tolerance to others.
3. Provide a raw material for "Nicholas the Basili" and his precedent "Kurt Vilderso" Terry Jones" and those similar to them to malign Islam and its teachings offended by those demonstrators.
Let’s examine and investigate together the conditions of those who raise the slogan “Except The Messenger of God”, and ask what did they do to the Prophet, who they were upset for, and what images drawn for his religion which formed to the other recipient a common pattern for the general Muslims living tragic conditions in terms of social, political, cultural and psychological aspects that cannot be set apart, no matter how hard did some people do to affect unscientifically nor methodically, the culture and Muslim character who lives in these countries and on his behaviors, what reactions expected of him of on certain incidents which are trying to provoke and blow up repressions for many reasons, perhaps religion would be the last.
Muslims, in there essence, were a basic material for those “nobodies” to make their films. Four years ago the extreme right-wing Dutch MP Kurt Wilders produced and made a film that harm Islam. It reminded me immediately of tens or even hundreds of films broadcasted by the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq. Nevertheless, we have not seen any demonstrations against al-Zarqawi similar to what Muslims had conducted against Wilders’ film. Many Muslims didn’t even shudder their bodies because of lowliness and barbaric acts of al-Zarqawi and al Qaeda in Iraq, taking into considerations that the peaceful and civilized demonstration is against defaming Islam, which was offended by Osama bin Laden, al-Zarqawi and other heads of terror, and is also better than to demonstrate against Wilders’ film or the film "Innocence of Muslims" and an accordance associated with agitation that some of it accompanied by sabotage, killings and destructions.
Where are the motto holders “Except The Messenger of God” when Iraqis are being killed daily by the terrorist operations done in the name of religion? ... Children, women and the elderly people are being killed every day, and under the banner of “No god but God”, and under the blows of al Qaeda raising slogans of Islam at every "jihadist" blow, Iraqis did not escape of even in the holy month of Ramadan, the month with sacredness for the offender and the victim!
Where is the denounce of motto holders “Except The Messenger of God” to the actions of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Arab world and the bombings in European countries?
Why did holders of the motto “Except The Messenger of God” remain silent on events that harm Islam by some other Muslims. It was worthier for them to demonstrate condemn such barbaric behavior in order to tell the world that these terrorists are merely an abnormal group of Muslims?
A trivial cheap film, not subject to any art criticism standards for its meanness and insignificant artistic stature set fire in protesters and stepped up their ardency for the Prophet. They revolted, yelled, broke and destroyed for his sake, according to their accounts! Their enthusiasm had not been evoked and their religion and morals are all in accordance with the religion of Islam and it’s noble Prophet when they see his image had been distorted by the jihadist organizations, which wreaked corruption, killings, and the destruction in both Muslim and Western countries!
Where are the ardor protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, the Sudan, Libya, Jordan and other Muslim countries, on the shedding of chaste blood in Iraq every day?
Why didn’t the scene of bloods and scattered body parts by suicide terrorist operations agitate the jihadists "Islamists" the anger of those who go out today in defense of the Messenger of Allah.
What is the meaning of love for the Messenger of God in one hand and to kill his fans and followers of “Al al-Bayt “on the other hand?
What a hypocrisy, contradiction, psychological diseases and sick hatred carried by those who raise in one hand the slogan of “Except The Messenger of God” and kill other Muslims by their own other hand through the satisfaction they has been showing to those who blow up in Iraq and in the rest of the world.
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