My problem with the peaceful Muslims of the world
But the terrorists misunderstanding Islam represent only a very small percentage of Muslims! Not more than 1%. They are not the true Islam, just trust me! My big problem with this line of argument is that there are about 2 billion Muslims in the world today. If only 1% of those Muslims are terrorists, there are potentially 20 million Muslims walking around with a stern belief it is their Allah-given duty to subjugate every non-Muslim and bring shariah to wherever their feet thread. Can non-Muslims be concerned about this?
The answer to the above question is usually a very subtle “No”. People genuinely concerned about these potential 1% are Islamophobic and shame on them for even daring to associate terrorist acts with Islam despite the fact our lived experience and 14 centuries of Islamic history show us beyond a shadow of doubt that Islam is a very violent ideology and there is a direct correlation between this ideology and terrorism.
Just today in the UK, it has come out that the Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana was in possession of an Al-Qaeda manual on Jihad. When the news originally broke some months ago, it had all the trappings of an Islamic terror attack but the British public was shamed for daring to make assumptions that it had anything to do with Islam. The police intentionally misled the public by putting out a statement that Axel was raised by Christian parents thus strongly hinting without actually saying that he is a Christian boy, of course they must have known at the time that he had an Al-Qaeda manual in his possession, they hid that from us. We have earlier spoken of Bishop Mar Mari in Australia and Deborah Samuel in Nigeria.
Yet despite all of this, we are never to make any association between these acts of terror and Islam as a religious ideology. Herein lies my problem with peaceful Muslims;
What exactly are the peaceful Muslims doing to counter and stop the extremists among them? What in-house measures within Mosques both individually and collectively are in place to counter radicalisation and extremism? The best we get out of peaceful Muslims are 5 minute condemnation of terrorist acts followed by months and endless years of enlightening the public about true Islam and why they really should not be Islamophobic.
Now, I don’t know about you but if a bunch of Christians were to go around slaughtering people in the name of Christ because Jesus in Luke 19:27 said, “As for those who would not that I reign over them bring them here and slay them before me”, my focus would be on enlightening Christians on Luke 19:27 explaining that it is a parable and Jesus is telling us what the king in the parable says. The parable is reflective of a future judgment where Jesus Himself would judge those who reject Him. My effort would be focused on countering and refuting those Christians and telling them to stop this madness.
In Islam, it is the other way round. The focus is on the public and on the critics. When a critic of Islam points out violence in the Quran, the Muslim apologists’ response is “whataboutism”, “What about 1 Samuel 15 in your Bible? What about your God killing babies?” and the famous “You are taking those Quranic verses out of context!”.
Problem though is that we do not have a problem of people going around killing people because of 1 Samuel 15 do we? Where are the people killing babies because God killed babies? If nobody is drawing these conclusions, does that not show that nobody is understanding these texts the way the Muslims, probably because of the way their own texts work, understand them? And more importantly, when the terrorists themselves cite these same verses the critics take “out of context” in support of their acts of terror, where are the peaceful Muslims to stand up to these guys and call them out for their misinterpretation of scripture?
So in other words, peaceful Muslims do nothing, absolutely nothing to combat the radicalisation and Jihad elements within their ranks and this makes sense because as Jesus said if Satan fights against Satan, how will his kingdom stand?
My theory is that a lot of Muslims are not as peaceful as we think. Mohammed Hijab in the UK for example, in his commentary on Salmon Rushdie’s stabbing said, “We do not condone this violence but we have our gangsters and we cannot stop our gangsters!”, an insight into his mind. This is the same guy whose lectures on Jihad include him extolling martyrdom and saying Christians and Jews should be fought only because they are Christians and Jews, no other reason. Ali Dawah has stated that in an ideal Islamic state, apostates would be killed and he would be eating popcorn while heads are being chopped off. These guys have millions of subscribers and massive support from the Islamic community. Remember when ISIS sought recruits and Muslims from all over the world trooped in to join them? Muslims who looked like ordinary everyday people walking the street. The west would be stupid to think that all Muslims who talk about being peaceful really mean it.
These are those of whom the scripture says,
“The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
But war was in his heart;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.”
(Psalms 55:21)
Now there are genuinely peaceful Muslims who just want to co-exist but my problem is they are not doing enough. Are they cleaning their own house? Are they whistle-blowing on Jihad terror plots? Are they on the look out for radical Imams and students of knowledge? Are they attacking their brothers with the same gusto with which they attack the public for being Islamophobic in response to these incessant terror attacks?
Peaceful Muslims of the world, you need to stop talking peace and start actively working towards it! Your words to us are loud but the silence in your actions towards your Muslim brothers who terrorise us worldwide is deafening.
