Current Situations faced by Muslims across the World
Need to tackle wisely
Written originally in Arabic by: Moulana Wazeh Rasheed Nadwi
Muslims across the world are suffering from a dire crisis. The conflicts of today are far different from those of the past. The past conflicts were mostly regarding culture and civilization. In the recent years, it has changed to military attacks, especially in certain regions. Consequently, many Muslim countries have come under the Military control, which has not only seriously affected them, but also weakened their ties and have divided them into groups. The recent revolution has claimed so many innocent lives and the whole community have been put to great distress and conflict. The remaining countries are living in the shadow of threat of Militant attacks.
After having faced severe conflicts and assassinations, the revolution that has emerged in some of the Islamic countries in recent years have caused drastic changes giving a new form to the ruling powers. Political situation in these countries remain to be critical. In some of the countries, people have been taking to the streets against the ruling power. The attitude of European countries clearly indicates that they are not in favour of this problem being resolved. The main reason is that they benefit in such situations which obviously is their hidden interest. They desire of weakening the bond between the people and the Government. This seems to be the only solution to prevent Islamic awareness and impede self confidence among Muslims all over the world. By adopting this stand, they appear to come out from the frustration of failure in battles against Muslims that were manipulated in the name of culture and civilization. They have a strong belief that this procedure could bring them out from the uncomfortable situation caused by their failure in political agenda.
The western countries want to make the best use of this opportunity to gain control over the situation by using the expertise of the intellectuals and scholars trained by them especially by those military rulers who took charge over the country after the revolution in 1950s.
On one hand, Islamic awareness is on the rise and the zeal of gaining self confidence is increasing in common people widely across the Islamic countries. On the other hand, people are losing faith in Muslim leaders, thinkers and intellectuals and are protesting against such leaders who were economically and financially assisted by the European Leadership for reaching their goal.
If the current situation continues, it would be a cause of worry for the western leadership. It is a clear indication that their interests could be hindered in Islamic countries.
The series of attacks by western countries have caused many Islamic movements and organizations to come up. Several conferences and symposiums were held in different parts of the world, which stressed upon the importance of imbibing islamic values and attributes in all walks of life.
As a result, a separate section of Islamic Finance was introduced in International European banks. This was also included as a subject in the curriculum of many universities.
Similarly, seeing the popularity of Islam and increase in number of Muslims in European countries, the European government has granted permission to teach Islamic studies in their institutions. They have also provided facilities to perform the obligatory prayers in factories and workshops, showing concern for Islam. Punctuality in performing obligatory prayers is itself considered to be of significance compared with people of other faiths.
However, Intellectuals and other groups of thinkers highlight these developments as Islamic awareness and see it as a clear indication of being self-confident. This is considered to be a positive attempt in becoming independent.
Therefore, attempts are made to divert the attention of Muslims from Islam and restrict them from being self-dependent. They want to keep the Muslims away from efforts that could unearth the conspiracy of so called liberal western culture and the colonialism at all levels - educationally, politically, and now economically.
In order to divert the attention of Muslims from Islam, they constantly plan and hatch conspiracy to create differences and conflicts between different sections of the whole Muslim community spread across the world.
The group involved in conflicts, are supported by providing them with financial aid and weapons. As it was observed during the conflict between Iraq, and Kowait and Iraq and Iran during the recent revolutions that occurred in Arab countries.
Another instance of conflict was witnessed by African countries, in which the involved group was granted military and financial support by European countries. Besides all these conflicts among different sections of the Muslims communities, they are also being provoked by targeting their religious sentiments which sometimes lead to taking extreme steps. If people react to such provocations, they are allegedly exposed as terrorist and culprits of such unpleasant acts.
So far in most of the bomb blast cases, Muslims are the only ones accused when the probe report carried out in some places proved that the explosive materials used in untoward incidents were made out of the country. It requires impressive experience, besides technical skills and financial support to make such materials. When Muslim societies are being targeted and allegedly made responsible for such extreme acts, it is unbelievable that they are able to bear such heavy expenses and provide technical support when the community itself is facing the problems of ignorance, poverty and backwardness.
Experts’ report has revealed the culprits behind these incidents. Even the bomb blast incidents which occurred in America and those which occurred in Afghanistan and Iraq were justified by the former president of America as a reason to invade and destruct the other Islamic countries, which was suspected to be the work of other groups. As a result, the western media constantly kept on accusing Muslims for terror attacks which took place all over the world. Those countries which come under the west were affected badly by the extreme steps taken against the name of Islamic terrorism.
The live example is the past and recent happenings in our country. Though the probe in some of the bomb blasts cases have proved the involvement of Non-Islamic movements, innocent Muslims were accused and detained. Like this, the Muslim community is being targeted across the world. They are seen with suspicion and are harassed. Behind every unpleasant incident, Muslims are allegedly pointed out without any proof of involvement; Muslim youths are detained and being sent to jail.
Japan is another instance of being victimised by such propaganda. There Muslims were living peacefully. They had good relationship with the Government and were in harmony with them. But due to the mounting pressure of America, the situation has changed and even government’s stand had become unfavorable for them. To make Muslims violent and aggressive, controversial issues are raised about the Holy book, prophets are dishonored and sometime the holy places are targeted, so that the muslims oppose it. When such incidents occur, they are exploited on its basis and accused of terror attacks occurring anywhere. In such cases if Muslims stage agitation to express their anger even peacefully, they are beaten up harshly either by police force deployed to ensure peace or are assaulted by the members of non-Islamic organization. Sometimes such incident leads to communal riots and clashes as taken place recently in different parts of India. During these incidents, several unpleasant episodes took place: The Holy book was burnt, mosques were attacked.
All this was done so that the Muslims would react strongly and exhibit violence. Such incidents were witnessed in different cities of our country, like in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
Moreover, there are a few things which are used as a tool to force Muslims to react. Among those are wearing of veil, growing a beard and construction of Minar(Tower) which have been banned there. This formula is applied across the world to victimize them. Such things make Muslims aggressive and sometimes lead to communal clashes and conflict among them.
These incidents generally happened in European countries such as Denmark, Holland and others. These countries seem to follow the same foot prints of the West and are totally against the community. Muslim youths, their institutions and the students studying in Europe are being targeted and attacked constantly. Even keeping beards, constructing minars/towers have been banned. In an attempt to tarnish the image of Islam and the prophet (SA)as well as damage the history of Islam, some controversial and texts hurting the sentiments of Muslims were included in pamphlets and books and circulated widely. For manipulating such incidents, they are considered as experts. Nowadays Muslims are suffering from such anti-Muslim trends all over the world. Due to this, they are in deep stress and are mentally disturbed. It seems that Muslims nowadays are passing through a very tough phase that is testing their patience and self control.
Indeed, Islam has taught to its followers how to face the situation patiently and how to tolerate with unpleasant things like these. It also has taught them to keep away from violence. But there are some questions to which there are no satisfactory answers. As the European thinkers and intellectuals claim that the age we are living, is a liberal age and there is freedom of religion, expressions, and we are bound to respect each and every religion, no one has right to intervene at all. But are they true in their saying? It might be true in favour of them and for others but for Muslims it has double standards. Muslims are too far from availing such freedom, which often Western people talk about or are mentioned in their law books. Whenever Muslims raise their voice against allegations upon them, or want to use their rights of expression and give their opinion, they have faced either the severe bias or they have been harassed. Whether the matter is to defend the religion or safe of creed, they are humiliated and victimized.
Western Media always added to the trouble of Muslims. These sources have not left any stone unturned to blame the Muslims and accuse them. They ignore their individual or collective issues and give coverage when innocent muslims are held responsible for terrorism. When Muslims are attacked and humiliated, media sources disappear from the scene.
These are the different types of issues which are common all over the world. Muslim leadership requires to analyze the situation intellectually, and come up with some concrete solutions. During the course many means could be used as media, spreading, training and educating the people. Indeed, in order to understand the faced situation, there is a need to have inclusive knowledge and comprehension.
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