May Allah
Bless America By Siddique Malik President www.spreadfreedom.com
A
front-page article in the USA Today of January
6, 2005 raised an excellent question: "Could US
aid to survivors (of the Asian Tsunami) counter
anti-Americanism among Muslims?" Sadly, my answer
to this question is in the negative.
The problem is not that Muslims are genetically
anti-American but that most of them (even educated
ones) are hopelessly addicted to the venom of
the ignorant and bigoted clerics with whom the
world is tragically replete. These icons of hatred
and ignorance exist not just in the Third World
but also in Australia, Europe and even America.
The recipe of these demons is simple: recite a
few verses from the Holy Book (regardless of these
verses' relationship to the topic of the moment
- most Muslims including most clerics do not understand
Arabic) and then utter many thousand words of
hatred. Tragically, the audience that may include
doctors, engineers, accountants, professors, etc.,
would just sit there and listen to these diatribes.
I am sure that some of the mosques even in America
are not immune to this phenomenon. Generally,
if you have a little bit of religion it is good
for you but its excessive intakes will destroy
your mind. Unless Muslims stop making themselves
available to be the victims of these acts of spiritual
highhandedness by the clerics, America will always
be the culprit, regardless of what it does or
doesn't do. America epitomizes freedom, equality
and human dignity, ideas that are completely alien
to and constitute an anathema to these people.
If and when Muslims develop a serious love of
freedom and start to question these dispensers
of narrow-mindedness, the latter will automatically
become irrelevant and subsequently extinct. Only
then, Muslims' real journey on the road to progress
will commence.
There is already a talk among Muslims that the
Tsunami was triggered by an American nuclear test.
I am not surprised by this talk; this is yet another
baseless conspiracy theory that ironically will
find many subscribers. Ignorance is a bliss. Meanwhile,
let America continue to do what it does best:
serve the humanity, as the filthy rich Arab kingdoms
and emirates greedily count their oil revenues
and bow towards Mecca five times a day. What good
are these prayers if they fail to engender a love
and respect for humanity and an irresistible need
to help fellow human beings especially when they
are in desperate need? May Allah bless America,
a fountainhead of freedom, humanity's first and
last hope, and a conduit through which the Almighty
dispenses numerous bounties to mankind.
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