{"id":1353,"date":"2012-10-04T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2012-10-04T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:03:49","slug":"student-speaks-out-about-anti-islamic-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2012\/10\/04\/student-speaks-out-about-anti-islamic-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Student speaks out about anti-islamic video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stone Abdullah<\/strong>
\nBlue & White Flash \/ Guest Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The recent anti-Islam video cryptically named \u201cInnocence of Muslims\u201d that has spread like the black plague over the Middle-East and other nations where Islam is the dominant way of life, has indeed invoked violence and hatred.\u00a0 It is as if somebody\u2014or some collective group of individuals flipped the proverbial \u201cswitch\u201d and watched the chaos unfold like clock-work.<\/p>\n

Dozens have died with hundreds injured and no one is sure when peace will be restored. But who could be responsible for the construction of a film that blatantly accuses (without any evidence) a religions\u2019 Prophet of being a child molester, womanizer and a fraud? The answer is far more sinister than popular news media would allow\u2026and maybe that\u2019s on purpose.<\/p>\n

First, what do most Americans know about Muslims? Many Americans believe that Muslims are either \u201cterrorists\u201d, \u201cislamists\u201d, \u201cradicalists\u201d, \u201cmilitants\u201d, \u201cIslamic-radicals\u201d, \u201cIslamic-militants\u201d and the list goes on but never are they Muslims.<\/p>\n

Many believe the 9\/11 Commissions\u2019 report on \u201cIslamic-radicals\u201d knocking down the Trade Centers when all of their passports were recovered and black boxes weren\u2019t. That aside, the majority of Americans have little to no respect for Muslims, and those that do are marginalized or not publicized.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just in America; remember in 2006 when a Dutch artist in Denmark produced a derogatory cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad? There was not much public outcry (aside from the Muslims), and it wasn\u2019t treated as anti-semitic\u2014even though Arabs and Hebrews are semitic. And let\u2019s not be mistaken, Christians, Jews and Muslims get mocked alike. But, mock a Muslim, things are fine; mock a Jew, pay a fine.<\/p>\n

Enter the anti-Islam video. According to thestar.com, a host of extreme individuals from Coptic and Evangelical Christians in America to so-called extremist Muslims in Egypt are to blame for the production and promotion of the video. Why? Political gain.<\/p>\n

I am a Sunni Muslim, meaning the majority of the 1.5 billion on earth, and it saddens me to see other Muslims react violently, however, against those not responsible for this grave slander. Muslims should not consider a \u201ctake it lying down attitude\u201d towards mockery of Islam, but neither should Muslims exceed the limits set by Islam.<\/p>\n

For instance, the Shariah law in Islam for the penalty of slander is death to those who\u2019ve done it\u2014and this means proving their guilt, not by random choice. However, because Shariah law also tells us that we must obey the laws of the country we live in, common sense says we can\u2019t exercise that penalty. Unfortunately, Islam is the most slandered on and berated religion on the planet; even so there is deep, emotional attachment with its believers. Regardless of such, our faith must take precedence over our emotions and I can only pray that it happens soon.
\nSecondly, if those who incite Muslims didn\u2019t know how easily it was to incite them, they wouldn\u2019t work so hard to do it. What they\u2019ve perpetrated is evil and should be protested not only by Muslims, but any person of faith.<\/p>\n

Third, Muslims should know better. This sort of orchestrated incitement has been done before and if the Muslims cannot recognize when they are being manipulated, the joke is solely on us. That being said, the Muslims who violently reacted are of poor, unemployed younger aged males who have nothing to lose for their country is already disenfranchised. In contrast the American Muslims, who aren\u2019t spoken about, do not react violently but speak of their discontent about the video.<\/p>\n

What does this mean? The framing of Muslims as nothing but uncivilized people must be perpetuated just to ensure that in America at least, little to no influence from them can exist. So far it has worked.<\/p>\n

My final reaction to this abomination is that it does not hurt me, my brothers and sisters in Islam, nor does it affect Islam in any way\u2014contrary to our intolerance of slander. Why? We believe that those who commit such atrocities shall eventually face the ultimate penalty\u2026which if I may, helps me sleep.<\/p>\n

The views expressed in the commentary are those of the writer(s) and in no way represent the views of The Blue & White Flash.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stone Abdullah Blue & White Flash \/ Guest Writer The recent anti-Islam video cryptically named \u201cInnocence of Muslims\u201d that has spread like the black plague over the Middle-East and other nations where Islam is the dominant way of life, has indeed invoked violence and hatred.\u00a0 It is as if somebody\u2014or some collective group of individuals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}