Friday, 24 February 2006
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I visited a page recently, which contains many offensive cartoon pictures regarding Allah s.w.t, Islam and Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. A senior of mine gave me the address of the webpage and out of curiosity, I went to the website...and as I have expected, there are many cartoons, drawings of Rasulullah saw and other things that would undoubtedly anger all Muslims in the world if they see it. In short, I do not want to elaborate on the details of the cartoons. I am sure you understand what I mean.
I was very frustrated, sad, and angry that someone in this world would create a page with the sole purpose of mocking Islam. The mockings are of course, very unacceptable. Picture's of pigs and...okay, I am not going to start. So, here is what I did: I wrote an email to the owner of the page, trying not to sound angry though I know that I was a bit (or very?) sarcastic. Here is his reply and my email to him. My email was a bit weird I think, asking him to look up the Al-Quran and all but what can you expect? I wasn't really thinking that time.
Plus I had a class coming. Here is his reply:Your email is very kind natured, which I respect deeply. Too bad all muslims can’t express themselves this way. Now for the analytical portion of your email:
I have read quite a bit of the Koran, hadiths, and sura. The “truth in it” as you put it, is that Muhammad raided, lied, broke treaties, murdered, raped and engaged in pedophilia. I cannot condone exalting a man with such serious flaws in his character. By today’s standards, he would be beaten, shot, and hanged – in that order. You say islam doesn’t promote violence!? How can you say that? The Koran you speak so highly of has statements such as “kill the unbelievers”, “subjugate and humiliate them”, etc. If it doesn’t promote violence, why is it that of almost 30 conflict across the globe right now, muslims are engaged in almost all of them? The cartoon issue was very eye-opening. Your people have killed others FOR A CARTOON! All the things that your kind have said about Christians and Jews, and you’re going to be upset about a drawing? If you can’t see how whiny and immature that makes your religion look to the world then you are blind. Allah must be a pretty impotent god to get upset about drawings. My God made the universe, a simple drawing of Jesus or anything else isn’t going to diminish God’s supremacy. That’s why my God has never ordered me to kill you or anyone else for not believing in him.
I know God is with me, thank you. I do think you confuse my God with your allah. They are not the same! Still, live in peace and freedom. I don’t agree with your religion but I believe you have the right to believe in it, as long as you can keep your hands (and guns) to yourself.
From: nurul amilin [mailto:ladyinsox@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 03:46
To: meatrocket@cartoonjihad.com
Subject: It is sad. May God forgive you.Greetings.
I am very sad on your behalf, to be seeing the existence of human being like you.
One advice for you: Before publishing anything, look up for the evidence first, about Islam, about Al-Quran, about our Prophet Muhammad. I dare you read the al-Quran and find the truth in it. If God loves you, he will help you find the right path and open up your heart to see the beauty of Islam and Al-Quran. You will then know the true Prophet Nabi Muhammad. You will then cry for all the sins you've done, and maybe then you will know how to differentiate between what is right and what is wrong. Not every people is blessed to appreciate Islam, but do not worry, I will always pray for you and I hope Allah will answer to my prayer and I also hope that Allah will shine His Blessings on you.
Just in case your heart is too hard and too cold to be cracked open, I hope you will be patient enough in surviving the consequences of the life-after-death.
Islam does not promote violence. Islam is beautiful in more ways than you can ever find. It is up to you, whether you want to choose between glass or diamond. Beauty or disaster.
Wishing you all the best :) Good luck in finding the right path. God is always with you.
Read it?
I have prepared a reply for his email when it turns out that the webpage has already been closed. I wasn't able to send him the reply and the page can no longer be accessed. I am not sure if he's going to open the page again soon, or in the future, but one thing for sure is that I am glad the page is closed (hopefully forever). At least one page on offensive cartoons about Islam is no longer active. However, I am quite frustrated because I wasn't able to reply to all his accusations and his other remarks regarding Islam besides making him understand the truth about Islam. The long reply I have panstakingly created is wasted. But it's okay. Yep, it's okay.
Ooohh....gotta get back to studying. Wish me luck and pray for me, will you? I have an exam this coming Monday. A gut-wrenching one.
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Comments (5)
Wow.. that's pretty sad that the person never actually spent his time to read the passages in context. Once they do, they'll understand that the passages refer to hostile unbelievers who are threatening you. He obviously never read about Rasulullah's kind treatment on prisoners of war and other non-Muslims. And actually, ALLAH is the name of the Bible's God too.. The Arab Christians call their God Allah, and this is proven by the existence of Malay Bible, in which God is written as Allah. And if he had read his holy scripture carefully, maybe he could've identified how mass murder is done in it, with the righteous, men and women, as well as children, were killed brutally and maimed. Wonder what he has got to say about it?
C'mon! He's saying that Allah is impotent 'cos he's sad about the drawings? He is not sad, but we Muslims are! If Allah had willed it, the cartoonists would've been struck dead, but thanks to His mercy and love, He is giving them a chance to repent. We are angry because the cartoons lie about Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h! Ask him, if his mother, whom he loves very much, were to be portrayed in the most sexually explicit way in a cartoon, would he be angry? Of course he would, because the cartoon is a lie! Same goes for Prophet Muhammad.. We love him dearly, therefore we feel the need to protect his good name against those slandering lies! Of course, this doesn't mean I condone the violent attacks against embassies, but Islam can't be merely judged by the acts of Muslims. If it was done that way, then no religion in the world is pure.
Perhaps he could spend some time reading about the bomb threats and death threats one Australian museum received when they tried to exhibit some art piece about Jesus in urine or something. The museum quickly withdrew the plan to exhibit it. Yet nobody made a fuss on how it is preventing the freedom of speech, and the museum were quick to withdraw it. Now that it happens to Muslims, it's a different story? Or perhaps he'd like to read how anti-abortion people of his religion actually attacked hospitals, killing many in the process? Or perhaps the mass murder of Jews they did before, like the one they did in Spain? Who are the terrorists now?
It's true that there are many Muslim countries in wars today, but the important thing is to research who started it. Was it the Muslims? Who attacked who? Are the Muslims terrorists to fight against those who started the attack? Or we should just stay put as any invaders marr the dignity of our country? Perhaps some people should just read more.
Haha, sorry, I got emotional :P
I wish you ALL THE BEST for your forth-coming exams. May ALLAH make it all easy and smooth-sailing for you, Hazel. Ameen.
That was REALLY emotional, ayumi. Hehe. But I understand. I wanted to send him a longer reply but due to time constraint, I had to keep the email short. The reply I had for him was a lengthy one but too bad the site is closed, so automatically the email address is also inactive. Huhu.
Pycnogenol: Thank you. I need all the luck in the world!
By the way, how are your exams?