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  • A Step By Step Guide On How To “Own” The ISIS Problem

    A Step By Step Guide On How To “Own” The ISIS Problem

    Dear Alfian (can I call you Alfian?),

    Here’s a step by step guide on how to ‘own’ this problem:

    1) Acknowledge the fact that these barbarians subscribe to the same faith as you and I do – even if they’re the smallest, most radical, most extreme, faction of that faith.

    2) Acknowledge the fact that these barbarians quote verses from the same holy book you and I hold high, when they choose to commit horrendous, unimaginable, inhumane acts.

    3) Acknowledge the fact that the these verses can be, and have been, misinterpreted, distorted, abused, and weaponised far more than any other text.

    Then,

    4) Get involved in the the fight against the weaponisation of Islam.

    I have no doubts that these barbarians are not ‘real’ Muslims; but they’re a real problem — and you and I, and the billion others who share the same faith, need to look inwards to find a solution.

     

    Source: Nabil Mustafiz

  • Don’t Let ISIS Divide Us

    Don’t Let ISIS Divide Us

    As i entered the lift two middle aged women seems shocked, i was in my normal islamic garb as i was heading to my lecture. I gave them a smile press close and face the door. From my back i heard a conversation in a language i didn’t understand but i could only recognized the word ‘PARIS…PARIS…PARIS’. Little they knew that i could see their reflection from the lift’s window, they where pointing to me a few times between the conversation. Trying to be hopeful that it is not what i think they might be talking about, as the lift opened i hold the door and gave them the biggest smile of the day. i walked away and my heart sank.

    | 17 NOV 2015 | 1030AM |

    After paying for my petrol i headed out to a heated shouting from two men, one of them was wearing a songkok (muslim headgear). Not knowing why they are fighting i could only hear cursing been thrown around. The muslim guy then drove away. As i was walking pass the other shouted the four letter word and said this “lian**** you isis! go and bomb yourself!”. I just kept silent and went away, my heart sank again.

    To my brothers and sisters,
    If you keep your conspiracy theories stories to your walls, you will just build walls not bridges. I sincerely hope that these two encounters of mine are isolated cases. I have beautiful friends from other faiths and cultures and i believe that to defend our homeland is a collective effort.

    It is our responsibility to not let hatred hit our shores.

    Your Singaporean brother from another mother
    Muhammad Zahid
    Humanitarian Worker

     

    Source: Muhammad Zahid Mohd Zin

  • Alfian Sa’at: Outrageous To Suggest Muslims Should “Own” The ISIS Problem

    Alfian Sa’at: Outrageous To Suggest Muslims Should “Own” The ISIS Problem

    I don’t know how to ‘own’ this problem of ISIS.

    And the simple reason is that ISIS has not, does not, will never own my allegiance. This is stating the obvious but there are people too thick to figure this out by themselves.

    ISIS has killed more Muslims than non-Muslims. Some were killed for refusing to swear loyalty to them. Female Muslim doctors were killed for refusing to wear veils when treating patients. There is a whole catalogue of horrors that they have perpetrated, including the rapes of women and the killing of children. I can’t even bring myself to watch any of their execution videos because just the description sickens me to the core of my being.

    I don’t know how to ‘own’ a problem in which there is every possibility that I will be one of those executed.

    So those of you who insist on telling Muslims to ‘own the problem’, do ask yourself why you are doing it. Does it give you the bully’s pleasure to associate someone with the very worst of (in)humanity? Do you think that there is not enough self-criticism within the Muslim community and having a discussion about ISIS will force some soul-searching? (In which case you really haven’t hung out with enough Muslims.) Or do you just need some ‘moderate Muslims’ to ‘apologise’ so that you can seize the opening to go off on one of your Islamophobic rants?

    I keep hearing all these demands about ‘moderate Muslims’ needing to publicly denounce what the extremist ones are doing. And very often these platforms are subsequently hijacked by those who go on to denounce Islam. So it’s not surprising that many of us would prefer to keep our thoughts–the sorrow at the senseless murder of innocents, the anguish at how verses are interpreted into an ideology we can’t even recognise–private.

    If you know of anyone who endorses what ISIS is doing, then go ahead and ask them to ‘own the problem’.

    Leave the other Muslims alone. We don’t owe you any explanation or statement on something which we can even barely imagine or comprehend, much less condone or justify.

     

    Source: Alfian Sa’at

  • Walid J. Abdullah: The injustices in Palestine and Syria deserve equal outrage as the Paris attacks

    Walid J. Abdullah: The injustices in Palestine and Syria deserve equal outrage as the Paris attacks

    I am not disturbed at all by people who change their profile pictures to incorporate the French flag. Some do it because they studied/worked in France, or have learnt French, and therefore have a natural affinity for the country and its people. Some do it because it’s cool to jump onto the bandwagon. Some do it simply because all it takes is to press a button. It is all fine. There is really no need to get upset about that.

    Changing your profile picture does not need in any way imply you are fine with killing of innocent people elsewhere, so we must not make such tenuous claims.

    What does disturb me though, is when people say that talking about innocent lives being taken away elsewhere, or speaking on how Western foreign policy could be one of the causes of terrorism (not the only one, obviously), is somehow equal to devaluing human life, or is equivalent to justifying the murders in Paris. I think that is just absurdity of the highest order.

    Of course, we must in no way justify the Parisian murders, or devalue the lives lost. I just don’t see how saying that Palestinians go through similar stuff, or stating that Syrians have been through worse, or that many other peoples in the world face injustices everyday, ‘cheapens’ the lives lost in Paris.

    Worse still, some of the people who are saying such stuff, are usually completely silent when innocent people are killed elsewhere.

    If someone is vocal about the loss of innocent lives in Afghanistan, for example, and then says that we should not compare Paris to other countries, i can accept that, even if i may not agree with the premise.

    But for those who are silent on other issues, and yet see the need to lecture others who are expressing dismay at the loss of Palestinian lives, i think we know for sure who are the ones that actually ‘cheapen’ the lives of others.

    An innocent life is an innocent life: if we rush to condemn one act of terror vociferously, and then are silent towards others, i think it is good to check why on earth we are behaving in that manner, who is it that we are so eagerly trying to please, and whether that is indeed consistent with our own moral codes.

    It also seems to me like people who refuse to discuss the causes of terrorism properly, are perhaps not really interested in solving it.

    Source: Walid J. Abdullah

  • My Ex-Secondary School Teacher Is Anti-Islam

    My Ex-Secondary School Teacher Is Anti-Islam

    ****ATTENTION****
    THIS GUY NAME MARCUS TANG USED TO BE MY SEC TEACHER. HE IS AGAINST ISLAM!!! PLS SPREAD and REPORT HIM! AND HE IS ANTI MALAYSIANS.

    OMG SUCH A DISGRACE AS A SINGAPOREAN..

    Marcus Tang 1 Marcus Tang 2 Marcus Tang 3 Marcus Tang 4 Marcus Tang 5 Marcus Tang 6AS A HUMAN WE SHOULD RESPECT EACH OTHERS RACE/RELIGION. BY DOING THIS YOU GAIN NOTHING YOU PIECE OF SHIT! N

    O RELIGION TEACH US TO CONDEMMED OTHERS.

     

    Source: Abdils Abdul Malek