Monday, October 15, 2012

Shoot the Messenger of Peace.

Through centuries all prophets including Mohammed have been insulted, mocked and rejected. Before all of Mecca embraced Islam, many desert Arabs were rude to the prophet. When Mohammed invited the people of Taif to Islam they rejected, ridiculed and hurled stones and abuses at him. Though his followers wanted to take revenge against them the prophet advised them to exercise restraint, tolerance and return their rudeness with kindness. Mohammed was a passionate defender of the oppressed, the poor, slaves and women. He sacrificed his entire wealth, personal comfort in the pursuit of social justice. The Medina document establishing the first Islamic state was based on trust and mutual respect for all faiths and sects, who had social and financial interactions with each other. The Jews, Christians, Pagans and Muslims were signatories to this charter as equal citizens without being assimilated into one religion, language or culture. All this has been torn asunder as religious cynicism stains everything with the crimson gore of violence and intolerance. Negative portrayal of Islam has resulted in a lack of appreciation of its history, culture, love and veneration. A sardonic world view captures fear, loathing and hatred exposing the dark underbelly of religious fanaticism. Terror is chaotic possessed by an evil spirit, it spews a lethal venom, whose neurotoxicity amongst fanatics spreads as they ruthlessly chase the agenda of intolerance - in a shadowy half land between belief and bigotry. This fatal lack of compassion, mercy and love by illiterate mullahs, priests and bigots is evident as they exhort the faithful with the war cry of an eye for an eye. It is an unrepentantly cynical commentary on the Muslims, who modeled their entire life around their prophet and his foundations of peace, compassion, and mercy, in the hope of change as promised to them. The tenets misinterpreted become edicts - built on the ethos of fear which feeds a repressive regime. This is the grave danger that curtails or abrogates the freedom of mankind.

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