Tulisan2 mereka Islamophobes biasanya penuh dengan half-truth, strawman, generalization, and double standard. Sebagian dari mereka biasanya mengquote selectively insiden2 politik di timur tengah yang dengan enaknya dicap dengan label Islam. Perbuatan kriminal yang jelas2 bertentangan dengan ajaran Islam dan dicondemned oleh mayoritas umat Islam yang jumlahnya 1 milyar jiwa di bumi ini diberikan prefix adjective "Islamic". Saya nggak tahu apa maksud dibalik motivasi penggunaan prefix ini (sengaja maupun tidak). Do they know that this will offend the feeling of all Muslims? Anyone from any faith will be offended when his/her faith is used as an adjective of any word with negative connotation. Kalau mereka ingin Muslims turut aktif bersama2 meresolve problem, seharusnya mereka tidak menggunakan kata2 yang demeaning or insulting their faith. Berikut ini sebagian comment yang saya pernah diskusikan dengan non-Muslims on similar subject.
People who are extreme in their views, either Muslims or non-Muslims, are trying their best to incite everyone to start the clash of civilizations. Those who write and make slanders against Muslims and their faith, promoting hate crime by calling for their discrimination, violating their rights, or worst calling for their annihilation (you'll be surprised if you search for these in youtube or many blogs out there) are not much different from people who are extreme in their interpretation of Islam and label those who do not agree with them as infidels or hypocrites, allowing the killing of innocents, abrogating clear rules laid down by God and His Prophet. Both are causing suffering to innocent people.
These extremists often claim that "peaceful Muslims are not really following the teaching of Islam". They say that the Qur'anic verses of peace and tolerance (e.g. 109:6, 2:256, 60:8) have been abrogated by the verses of war. They should know that any claim of abrogation is not acceptable unless it is backed by authentic saying of the Prophet. Opinion of anyone (be he is a scholar, mullah, etc) beside the Prophet cannot be accepted to prove an abrogation. Hence the injunctions for peace and tolerance are still valid, in effect, and not abrogated as they claim. They also often claim that the verses of peace and tolerance were revealed in the period when the Prophet was weak and didn't have strength to fight. Again, this is false accusation. Verses 2:256, 60:8, were revealed in Madinah when Muslims had the upper hand against the pagan Arabs who fought them. Historical records testify that Muslims lived side by side peacefully with their neighbors from different faiths in the time of the Prophet and throughout history. Islam clearly teach that there is no coercion in embracing faith.
They will say "what's wrong with criticizing Islam?". There are various motivations why people criticize Islam. For some, the fear of Islam. For some, missionary work. For others, power or wealth. We should look into our heart why we are afraid of Islam. If the reason is to find solution to problems in many Muslims worlds, people with good intellect, if they see any problem, they look into the root cause and try to fix it. Not making the problem worst by ignoring it, or making more root causes. If false interpretation of Islamic teaching is one of the root causes of the problems, we should fix it, not promoting it. We can do this by simply show the reason why some claims are false based on reliable basis and sound arguments. But this needs to be done in a civilized way, not by mocking or insulting, directly or implicitly. Even a valid argument can't convince anyone if presented in a disrespectful manner. Peace.
Mudah2an ada manfaatnya...
Wallahu'alam.
People who are extreme in their views, either Muslims or non-Muslims, are trying their best to incite everyone to start the clash of civilizations. Those who write and make slanders against Muslims and their faith, promoting hate crime by calling for their discrimination, violating their rights, or worst calling for their annihilation (you'll be surprised if you search for these in youtube or many blogs out there) are not much different from people who are extreme in their interpretation of Islam and label those who do not agree with them as infidels or hypocrites, allowing the killing of innocents, abrogating clear rules laid down by God and His Prophet. Both are causing suffering to innocent people.
These extremists often claim that "peaceful Muslims are not really following the teaching of Islam". They say that the Qur'anic verses of peace and tolerance (e.g. 109:6, 2:256, 60:8) have been abrogated by the verses of war. They should know that any claim of abrogation is not acceptable unless it is backed by authentic saying of the Prophet. Opinion of anyone (be he is a scholar, mullah, etc) beside the Prophet cannot be accepted to prove an abrogation. Hence the injunctions for peace and tolerance are still valid, in effect, and not abrogated as they claim. They also often claim that the verses of peace and tolerance were revealed in the period when the Prophet was weak and didn't have strength to fight. Again, this is false accusation. Verses 2:256, 60:8, were revealed in Madinah when Muslims had the upper hand against the pagan Arabs who fought them. Historical records testify that Muslims lived side by side peacefully with their neighbors from different faiths in the time of the Prophet and throughout history. Islam clearly teach that there is no coercion in embracing faith.
They will say "what's wrong with criticizing Islam?". There are various motivations why people criticize Islam. For some, the fear of Islam. For some, missionary work. For others, power or wealth. We should look into our heart why we are afraid of Islam. If the reason is to find solution to problems in many Muslims worlds, people with good intellect, if they see any problem, they look into the root cause and try to fix it. Not making the problem worst by ignoring it, or making more root causes. If false interpretation of Islamic teaching is one of the root causes of the problems, we should fix it, not promoting it. We can do this by simply show the reason why some claims are false based on reliable basis and sound arguments. But this needs to be done in a civilized way, not by mocking or insulting, directly or implicitly. Even a valid argument can't convince anyone if presented in a disrespectful manner. Peace.
Mudah2an ada manfaatnya...
Wallahu'alam.
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