Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News, 2013-12-31

In 2014, let’s stop blaming Islam for everything. Islam seems to have become a scape goat for scrupulous hacks that want to get away with taking over the world like Dr. Evil.

The world is filled with ironies and analogies. Prejudice against race, creed and colour is apparent even in the most diverse societies and Islam is placed at center of this abyss by the conniving west.

Take a look at the world and the picture becomes crystal clear.

We are Muslims and we have submitted ourselves to the Oneness of Allah. Islam is a religion that parallels other religions to a certain degree, but not without prejudices. So shout to the world and seek answers to profound questions, for in them lay the ignorance of those that cannot fathom the beauty of Islam,

We are Muslims! When you kill us, you call it “collateral damage”. When you imprison us, you call it a “security measure”. Exile our brothers and sisters en masse and you call it the “New Middle East”. Rob our lands, alter our leadership and you call it “democracy”! The question is why?

The analogies between the beauty of Islam are blatantly apparent. So let us ask some questions that does not require blood to be drawn from a stone, but merely de-constructing a parallel that is only separated by the name Islam.

Feisty and brilliant attorney Alan Shore in one of his closing arguments lambastes the American government for what some might agree to be the many shady atrocities inflicted upon the world.

In the monologue Shore says:

“When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out not to be true, I expected the American people to rise up. They didn’t.

Then, when the Abu Ghraib torture thing surfaced, and it was revealed that our government participated in rendition – a practice where we kidnap people, and turn them over to regimes that specialize in torture – I was sure then that the American people would be heard from. We stood mute.

Then came the news that we jailed thousands of terrorist suspects…locked them up without the right to a trial, or even the right to confront their accusers. Certainly, we would never stand for that. We did.

And, now it’s been discovered the executive branch has been conducting massive, illegal, domestic surveillance on its own citizens…you and me. And I at least consoled myself that finally, FINALLY, the American people would have had enough. Evidently, we haven’t.

In fact, if the people of this country have spoken, the message is: We’re okay with it all – torture, illegal search and seizures, illegal wiretappings, prison without a fair trial…or any trial, war on false pretenses. We as a citizenry are apparently not offended.

By the way, for the record, the client being defended was accused of tax evasion, which, of course, had a lot to do with terrorist surveillance, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay…not!”

In a speech in 1952 contained in a book by Adlai Stevenson, it is written: "The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism."

So while the naïve global community seeks to blame Islam for everything that seems to go wrong even if it’s at their blood dripping hands, the question is why?

This question has been evaded, yet requires an answer. Wouldn’t you like to know the answer to this question?

When there is trouble, we accept any solution. If the solution lies in Islam people refuse to look at it. Without looking to the tradition of Islam, people believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Quran says!

In a blog, written by Alastair Sloan, a freelance journalist and commentator specialising in inequality, injustice and practical solutions says:

“So before we blame radical Islam for terrorism and loss of freedom – consider that our Security Services blame our foreign policy, not any religion, for acts of terrorism. Radical Islam is a bastardisation of true, peaceful Islam. And the effect on our social fabric of continually scapegoating Muslims for our own aggression abroad is painful, and breeds yet more jihadists.”

(Twitter: @Faizie143)