Source/Credit: Neighbor Newspaper
By Allison Khan | February 15, 2011
Indonesia is a beautiful country. The lush green landscape and beautiful sunsets are enough to inspire poetry.
Yesterday, America celebrated Valentine’s Day. Roses, cards and candy are exchanged to say “I love you,” in a personal way, but there was an eerie silence in the press about the death of the Ahmadis in Indonesia.
The Asian Press shows a picture of a young girl marching in protest of Ahmadiyyat. Her hijab is perfect. Not a strand of hair is showing. But her face is distorted a mask of hatred.
What message are the Indonesians sending world wide?
If they want to tell the world that Muslims are wild animals, capable of chaos and madness, they are successful.
They bravely marched, one thousand strong, to drag seven defenseless men, out of the security of their mosque to strip and beat them until they were dead.
They brought their children to witness this crime. The children clap while their parents machete the prone Ahmadis.
While the Egyptian Muslims celebrate the exit of President Mubarak, the Indonesians pass around the video of the murder as if it is a great triumph.
Who, in their right minds, could ascribe any sanity to this action?
All the Muslims who marched on the Ahmadi-Muslims to murder the differences between them, did not prove that Islam is love, that Islam is peace, that Islam is the religion of the future.
Instead, they taught the world that Islam is filled with murderous hatred.
Was that really their intention?
Who looks more sane? Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, defending their mosques without weapons or the machete-wielding Muslims? Ahmadis who have born the brunt of prejudice for over one hundred years without taking revenge? It is only with patience and prayer that they could achieve an unblemished record of not taking revenge. The caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, like every other caliph before him, directs all Ahmadis to pursue prayer instead of revenge.
Hmmm. It doesn’t take long to work out that math equation.
Does anyone care? For some reason, Phil Collins’ song keeps repeating in my head: “Is anybody listening? Oh-oooh. No reply at all. Is anybody listening? No reply at all.”
Researching the internet for news of this heinous crime, I found one BBC article. Not one article from American after seven days of news!
I asked Ms. Hughes, a teacher at Sprayberry High School in Marietta what she thinks of the situation in Indonesia.
“It’s not in the American experience,” she said. “I still keep the Morovian star of the Russian Catholics on my mantel that belonged to my grandfather because they had to meet in secret. But, Americans haven’t experienced religious repression for hundreds of years. If I switch churches here or don't go to church at all, no one is knocking on my door.”
Christians may very well be turned off by Islam because it incites people to riot. They would prefer to live without such frightening passions that lead to mass murder. Understandable.
But the Muslim sects, who want to kill Ahmadis, are not the only ones presenting Islam to the world.
Ahmadiyyat explains that Islam is peace. Islam is love. Islam is for the past, the present and the future. Islam is for everyone. It is not frightening. It is not scary. It is based on prayer at home and prayers at the mosque. It’s about trying to learn to recite the Quran and explore its meaning through speeches, research and discussion.
So, if you had a choice, America. Whose version of Islam would you like to learn more about?
I hope your answer is Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam.
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