Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan
wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri...
Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena
ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena
tidak menentang kekerasan...
Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak
akan mengubah kenyataan...
Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa
ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya..."
'Katanya", al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah.
Tapi tanpa bukti.
"Katanya" hadits itu ada yang sahih..
Tapi tanpa bukti.
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Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425)
A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims..
Abdel Rahman al-Rashed*
It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is
equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists
are Muslims.
The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were
Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the
Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved
in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims
chosen to be their victims.
Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and
Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week
were also Muslims.
Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the
suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and
buildings, all over the world, were Muslim.
What a pathetic record. What an abominable "achievement." Does all
this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture?
These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and
degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of
denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and
seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing.
For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness
of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and
confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full
knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture.
Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based
radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the
religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us
contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even
calling for, the murder of civilians.
This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in
"infidel" Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians.
How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who
was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication
towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells
us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning
it into a religion of blood and slaughter?
In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with
nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption
because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and
their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives.
At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of
religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious
sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life.
Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose
verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent
necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says
explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a
whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal
war cry.
We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own.
We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder
civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us,
whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds.
These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image.
We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that
terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive
monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women.
We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous
crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to
reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other
people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own
children to European and American schools and colleges.
*Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news
channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic
newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.
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