Film Fitna: An Incitement to Hatred against Muslims
The film "Fitna" is an assault on the religion of Islam. It wounds deeply-held spiritual feelings of millions of Muslims around the world. It is a call for hatred and discrimination aginst Muslims in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. Made by a race-supremacist Dutch parliamentarian, the film argues that the Quran incites violence.
The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and other UN experts, have condemned the film in the following words: "While on the one hand, freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that must be respected, it does not extend to include incitement to racial or religious hatred which is itself clearly a violation of human rights. Public expressions that paint adherents of a particular religion as a threat to peace or global stability are irresponsible."
The European Union (EU), however, has drawn an opposite conclusion from that of the UN experts. While condemning the film as an unjustified attack on Islam, the 27 EU foreign ministers support the freedom of speech that the Dutch parliamentarian exercised in making the film.
Muslims are outraged. They too have the right to free speech in peacefully condemning the film and its hateful producer. They must, however, refrain from any over-reaction. The European history of attacking Islam is old. Centuries before the Europeans embraced the notion of freedom of speech, vicious attacks on the Quran, Prophet Muhammad, and Muslims have been encouraged, tolerated, and disseminated. I document the European hatred against Islam in an article Free Markets of Islamic Jurisprudence.
Muslims must ignore the film, read the Quran, and always remember what the Quran advises them to say on such insulting occasions: "To you be your Way, and to me my Way." Sura al kaafiruun 109:6. Insulting religions is a European problem and they will have to deal with it.
The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and other UN experts, have condemned the film in the following words: "While on the one hand, freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that must be respected, it does not extend to include incitement to racial or religious hatred which is itself clearly a violation of human rights. Public expressions that paint adherents of a particular religion as a threat to peace or global stability are irresponsible."
The European Union (EU), however, has drawn an opposite conclusion from that of the UN experts. While condemning the film as an unjustified attack on Islam, the 27 EU foreign ministers support the freedom of speech that the Dutch parliamentarian exercised in making the film.
Muslims are outraged. They too have the right to free speech in peacefully condemning the film and its hateful producer. They must, however, refrain from any over-reaction. The European history of attacking Islam is old. Centuries before the Europeans embraced the notion of freedom of speech, vicious attacks on the Quran, Prophet Muhammad, and Muslims have been encouraged, tolerated, and disseminated. I document the European hatred against Islam in an article Free Markets of Islamic Jurisprudence.
Muslims must ignore the film, read the Quran, and always remember what the Quran advises them to say on such insulting occasions: "To you be your Way, and to me my Way." Sura al kaafiruun 109:6. Insulting religions is a European problem and they will have to deal with it.
Actually it is not an attack on muslims, as in "racist", but on the religion - as in ideology.
ReplyDeleteTo argue that critcising a religion or ideology (blasphemy) is an incitement of hatred akin to racism is to privilege any ideology - no matter how abhorrent - as being beyond criticism as long as it claims religious status.
It would be much more convincing for Muslims to explain that their religion does not teach what the film says that it teaches than simply to scream racism
We the muslims didnt critisized others religion.
ReplyDeleteBut we find each and every time they critisized with un-usual false fake matters.
It proves that they are really very confused with their religion.
May Allah help them out!
Allah help them all.
The Koran teaches Moslems to hate. It has a wide range of imagery and insults for those who refuse to believe in Islam. They are likened to cattle (camels, cows, sheep), a goat-herd, dogs, asses, etc. (cf. Surah 25:44, 2:171, 7:175-177, 62:5)
ReplyDelete‘Be you apes, despised and rejected.’ K. 7:166, 2:65
"To Allah, there are no animals viler than those who do not believe and remain unbelievers" K. 8: 55
K. 5:60 : "Should I inform you [People of the Book] of those, who will have even worse recompense from Allah than the transgressors? They are those whom Allah has cursed; who have been under His wrath; some of whom were turned into apes and swine; who worshipped taghut [the devil or idols]; those are the people who are in a far worse plight and who have turned farthest away from the Right Way."
‘Read history and you will understand that the Jews of yesterday are the evil forefathers of the even more evil Jews of today: infidels, falsifiers of words, calf worshippers, prophet murderers, deniers of prophecies ... the scum of the human race, accursed by Allah, who turned them into apes and pigs ... These are the Jews – an ongoing continuum of deceit, obstinacy, licentiousness, evil, and corruption ...’ – (Imam of the Al-Haram mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayis)
The Koran also calls the infidels ‘shayatin’ in several places. This is called ‘demonisation’.
The Koran breeds contempt for anyone who is not a Moslem. If statements like this would be printed anywhere outside of the Koran, the authors would be dragged before the courts for hate-speech.
May Allah help Tanvir to admit the hatred comes straight from the angry mind of Mohammed.