If people defame your beloved, rather than turning to violence, use argument and reason to discredit them. Gunning them down in response to their publications makes you evil, and it dishonors your faith. Thus, the true teachings of Islam prompt me to write against the atrocity and offer prayers for the victims and their families.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Teen Reaction to HeBDO
This teenage Muslim-American was horrified by the news of an attack on the Paris office of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The Muslim extremists who carried out the deadly shootings had apparently lashed out against the magazine for publishing degrading caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Unfortunately, this cycle of strife is not new. As far back as a hundred years ago, the founder of my Ahmadiyya Muslim community, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, warned Muslim leaders to abandon the idea of an armed and violent jihad. He wrote, "[Your enemies] have not lined up armies. They are publishing magazines and books. We should also, therefore, pick up our pens and respond to their attacks with magazines and books."
If people defame your beloved, rather than turning to violence, use argument and reason to discredit them. Gunning them down in response to their publications makes you evil, and it dishonors your faith. Thus, the true teachings of Islam prompt me to write against the atrocity and offer prayers for the victims and their families.
If people defame your beloved, rather than turning to violence, use argument and reason to discredit them. Gunning them down in response to their publications makes you evil, and it dishonors your faith. Thus, the true teachings of Islam prompt me to write against the atrocity and offer prayers for the victims and their families.
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