FROM THE HEART OF A MUSLIM - TAWFIK HAMID
From the heart of a Muslim - Tawfik HamidI was born a Muslim
and lived all my life as a follower of Islam. After the barbaric
terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on
this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many
parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human
being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims
as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.
I
have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and
hatred toward Non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change.
Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and
killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.
We have
never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or
wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force
them to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect
our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic)
in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.
What message do we convey to
our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and
monkeys"…. Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate? I have been into churches and
synagogues where they were praying for Muslims. While all the time we
curse them, and teach our generations to call them infidels, and to
hate them.
We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend
Prophet Mohammed when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while,
at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books,
that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above
50 years old. I am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.
Muslims
denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we
condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathise with their cause. Till
now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa
or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an
author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed
according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing a book criticizing
Islam.
Muslims
demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop
the ban on the Hejab (Head Scarf), while we did not demonstrate with
such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders. It
is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to
these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts. We Muslims need to
stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of
democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East.
We
kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab
countries to make them "Jews-Free countries" while Israel accepted more
than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy
their rights as human beings. In Israel, women can not be beaten
legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no
fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our
Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I agree that the
'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders
and not because of Israel.
It
is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the
Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians
going to work with happiness in Israel, its 'enemy'. If Israel treats
Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the
opposite happening.
We Muslims need to admit our problems and face
them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in
harmony with human mankind. Our religious leaders have to show a clear
and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing
those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women by
men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam. Then, and only
then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The
time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: 'We Muslims have
to Change'.
P/S : Well, no matter what, selamat berpuasa kepada semua Musliman Muslimat di mana sahaja...
Posted at 09:17 pm by
Dillema
