Source: Huffington Post
Befriending Muslims while attacking Islam is no way to make friends with Muslims. The attitude that “Muslims are good people, but that which makes them Muslim is evil” is averse to creating bonds of community between Muslims and non-Muslims in a multi-religious America.
The “good” Muslim, “evil” Islam dichotomy is found in comments like, “I have friends who are Muslim,” or “My colleagues are Muslim,” coupled with comments that express a concern for the potential evil and fear of a sharia driven Islam.
This xenophobic strategy has become a tool of empowerment by politicians and news pundits in the 2016 election year. It simultaneously advances Islamophobia while freeing criminals from the burden of their crimes.
Donald Trump while suggesting a plan to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, requiring Muslims to be singled out under a particular identification database, and shooting Muslim prisoners with pig’s blood has said, “I have friends that are Muslims. They’re great people but they know we have a problem.”
From what one can tell, the problem which Trump is talking about out has to do with Muslims who have been radicalized with a political agenda and fight in the name of Islam. Trump blames such crimes that are politically, socially, and religiously very complex simply on Islam.
He gives a one-dimensional categorization of a great problem leaving only Islam to be “The” evil of “The” problem. Yet, at the same time, he claims to be friends with Muslims. Thus he pits the “good” Muslim against the “evil” Islam.
Ben Carson, too, invoked his Muslim friends, “I grew up in Detroit where there are more Muslims than any place in the United States. I had a lot of Muslim friends and playmates and schoolmates. Nothing wrong with Muslims, as long as they accept our culture and our Constitution.”
However, when questioned during another interview about whether Islam is consistent with the Constitution, Carson quickly responded with a negative, “No, I don’t–I do not.” Islam as incompatible with the American Constitution is further given a one-dimensional perspective by Carson who uses the same rhetoric as Trump.
By creating a large gap between Islam and the constitution while also invoking Muslim friendship, Carson sends the message that Muslims when extracted from their Islamic identity are American. Islam, thus is un-American. However, if Carson would consider Islam from those Muslims who practice it according to the vast majority of scholars and religious leaders, Carson would find compatible elements between the American constitution and Islam.
One of the leading news pundits, Bill O’Reilly, has given us the “good” Muslim story as well. In his Talking Points O’Reilly commented, “Most Muslims are peaceful people. Even if they do believe in sharia law, that’s a flaw in their thinking, it doesn’t mean they are violent maniacs.”
Categories: America, Islamophobia, The Muslim Times, USA
For the problem , there are two reasons , people are unaware of real Islam and that ideology which is being presented in the name of Islam & producing Bhagdadi like Jehadi who kills the innocents and shout Allah u Akbar. To counter Islamophobia and increasing hatered against Muslims , it is necessary to make that Islam , common which The Muslim Times is presenting.
From my observation of Muslim around the world.
As long as Muslim Scholars still follow the ancient Islamic laws, there is no peace in Muslim community and this world as we see now in Middle East and Pakistan.
The want to create / establish the system of the ancient syariah law like ISIS, Taliban, Boho Haram, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia etc
1.If they can establish the system of Syariah Government, they will implement the ancient Islamic system of Justice such as;
–beheading, cut off hands, flogging, hanging, crucifixion.Blasphemy, apostasy, Heresy and Gay_lesbian.
2. All women have to wear hijab or to cover the whole body with cloth when she goes out side. and non Muslim women have to respect and to wear too.
3. All non Islam Bank will be closed.
4. Non Muslim do not be allowed to join army,police and Government Job.
Most of the Islamic sects never declare that they will reject the ancient Islamic laws as above,including Muslim Ahmadiyah.( if I am wrong,please correct me )
Muslim Progressive have rejected the ancient Islamic system of Justice, Blasphemy,apostasy, Heresy, Gay-Lesbian laws from the book of Hadith.
Muslim Progressive reject to ban the non Islamic bank,, and reject to impose women to wear hijab or Burqa.Non Non Muslim will be allowed to join army,police and government Job, even though to be President and minister.
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