Dear Muslims,
When you talk about the Palestinian-Isra*li conflict do not use the Muslim against the Jews rhetoric. It’s harmful in a few important ways:
1. It promotes the idea that Judaism as a religion is responsible for the terrorism that is Zionism. We cannot blame Europeans/Westerners for associating us with terrorist groups like ISIS, and then do the same to Jewish people
2. The issue of Palestine cannot be discussed in terms of religion. We are not here to free Palestine merely because of Islam. We are for the freedom of Palestine at a humanitarian level. Genocide, terrorism, and colonialism are not to be tolerated or accepted - no matter your religious beliefs.
3. Displaying the conflict as that which is occurring between Muslims and Jews erases the suffering and loss Palestinian Christians have endured throughout the almost century long conflict.
4. Pitting Muslims against Jews does not do either side any good. We are both targeted minorities in the Western world, particularly Europe - we should aid each other and stand in solidarity with each other instead of feeding a hatred with no benefit for either side.
So the next time you talk about Palestine, remember that the complexity of the Palestinian crisis does not allow ignorance on your behalf.
I also feel that discussing it as a religious conflict gives the impression that there’s no way for it to be resolved - that it’s a difference in belief which cannot be reconciled, and maybe that no one is really in the right. The truth is it’s not morally ambiguous; it’s a struggle between the colonized and the colonizer.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PAY ATTENTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم (Narrated by
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O Lord, If I worship You from fear of hell, burn me in hell. O Lord, if I worship You from hope of paradise, bar me from its gates. But if I worship You for Yourself alone, then grace me forever the splendour of Your face. - Rabia Basri
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In response to Pamela Geller’s Islamophobic Anti-Jihad Bus Ads
MyJihad is a public education campaign that seeks to share the proper meaning of Jihad as believed and practiced by the majority of Muslims. Jihad means “struggling in the way of God”. The way of God, being goodness, justice, passion, compassion, etc. It is putting up the good fight against whatever odds or barriers you face in your life.
It is a central tenet of the Islamic creed that has unfortunately been widely misrepresented due to a) first and foremost, the actions of Muslim extremists, b) attempts at public indoctrination by Islamophobes who claim that the extremists are right and the rest of us are wrong, and c) a selective media that understandably focuses on the sensational.
This campaign is about reclaiming our faith and its concepts from extremists, both Muslim and anti-Muslim. It’s about our voice, our lives, our reality. MyJihad includes displaying public ads on buses & trains, the use of #MyJihad hashtag on twitter, outreach on Facebook and Youtube, as well as speaking events and other initiatives.
Can everybody and anybody evaluate or elaborate this statement, i don’t care who you are:
School is no longer about learning, but about passing.
