A recent news report said that seven Malaysians are among the suicide bombers recruited by IS. Two of them already blown up themselves in Iraq and Syria recently. I have no idea what is inside their head, and what kind or religion they are actually practising... definitely not the Islam I have been thought since the day I was born.
But yet most of the so called Muslims here in our Bolehland are still busy arguing that a certain "cross" sign should be taken down from other people's building, we should not celebrate Mother's Day, we should not wish "Merry X'mas", we should not wish RIP, and so many we should nots that if we were to put them all together and bind them, it would make Oxford Dictionary feel so ashamed to be placed beside it on the same bookshelf.
Is our level of faith so thin and fragile that it can be shaken merely by looking at a cross, or wishing a Merry X'mas to a friend of another religion?
Islamophobia is created by our own ignorance and parochial mentality. The western world just leveraged on our own fatuousness and slant it for their benefit.
Did we ever consider the other side of the fence? It never even occur in their mind that their supply of christian or hindu or buddhist faith will be depleted by wishing us "Selamat Hari Raya". Have you seen the monks, the priest, and the pujari debating about wishing a Muslim "Selamat Hari Raya" anywhere at all?
I believe that you have to respect others in order to be respected, you must love others if you want to be loved, you must do good and good will come to you. Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you ~ that is the Islam that I know of.
We wasted too much energy on trivial matters, why not use that energy in doing good and be that good person Islam thought us to be.
“We have appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had God willed, He would have made you a single community, but He wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to God and He will inform you regarding the things about which you differed.” ( Quran: Al-Ma’ida, 48)
~Era Ramly
15012016
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