50 Muslims killed at Friday prayers in
#NewZealandShooting by far right fanatics. When they can livestream
murder of worshippers at prayer you know depravity has sunk to lowest
pits. This hatred has been stoked by politicians and media. They must be
accounted alongside killers.
They
said they never expected such a thing to happen in a place like New
Zealand. I almost agreed but then I remembered they said exactly the
same thing when a gunman killed worshippers in a mosque in Quebec last
year. They said the same thing when Anders Breivik carried out his
murderous rampage in idyllic Norway.
The truth is this hatred has been stoked at every level and is deeply institutional and transcontinental.
Armed
far right groups have turned up outside mosques in the USA,
intimidating and threatening unarmed worshippers - as a matter of
routine.
Donald Trump’s
brazen anti-Muslim rhetoric, Boris Johnson’s vilification of Muslim
women, Tommy Robinson, Katie Hopkins, Jayda Fransen, Paul Golding and
far more elevated to hero-like status among the “forgotten masses” and
given prime time slots on mainstream media and allowed millions of
followers on social media.
Far
right, Zionist funded “think tanks” presented themselves as “moderate”
like the Henry Jackson Society whose leaders, like Douglas Murray, can
present speeches to European Parliaments, saying “conditions for Muslims
must be made harder across the board,” and how the world “needs less
Islam,” or the people like William Shawcross, former founder of HJS,
former head of the Charity Commission and Queen’s biographer who said
“Europe and Islam is one of the greatest, most terrifying problems of
our future”.
In the US,
intellectuals like Sam Harris who are very close to Maajid Nawaz and his
Quilliam deformists can openly say: "It is time we admitted that we are
not at war with 'terrorism.' We are at war with Islam."
Sayeda
Warsi has been saying for years that Islamophobia is endemic within her
own Conservative party but the truth is the this hatred spans the
political and class divide.
The
war on terror was launched under Labour Party leadership and laws that
followed, targeting the Muslim community all began under them too.
Internationally,
the rise of far right views has grown in tandem with extreme Hindu
nationalism supporting Trump and attacks against Muslims.
Communist China can imprison, rape and torture over a million Uighur Muslims in the name of fighting extremism.
Syria
can prosecute a war using chemical weapons, rape, ethnic cleansing and
starvation in the name of fighting extremism and receive full support
from Russia.
Britain can
pass a new law every year in the name of tackling Muslim beliefs. Donald
Trump can say “I believe torture works” and promise to “load up”
Guantanamo - because only Muslims have ever been imprisoned in it.
Killing
and abusing Muslims has always been justified and easily explained. The
fact that it’s happening within the “safe spaces” of white, Five Eyes
nations may be an uncomfortable inconvenience but it’s the truth. Just
look at how long the west has been bombing Iraq - nonstop since 1991.
Just look at the countries western forces have been involved in
devastating: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Libya, Yemen.
There will be many people in Britain and elsewhere secretly and openly celebrating these killings.
Muslims
will be mourning but we should also be happy. Death only comes once, so
let it be for the sake of Allah. And what greater sake is there than
the one who turns his face towards the qibla and raises his hands and
heart in preparation for the ultimate communication?
Let
us pack the masajid - men and women - this Friday and every Friday,
this prayer and every prayer. Let the masajid finally become places
where the matters of the Ummah are discussed and where the khutba
inspires and guides rather than pacifies and dulls our faith and
senses.
Let the kids run
free and laugh knowing that the masjid is a place of worship filled
with joy, not stern looks and anger. Let that be part of our revenge.
Let this act be a cause for people to come back to their faith or
embrace it anew.
May
Allah accept the martyrdom of these worshippers - killed by haters and
enemies of Allah and his deen. They follow the path of Omar ibn
al-Khattab, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Az-Zubair ibn al-Awam and Abbad ibn
Bisher who were attacked and killed in prayer. The only reward for this
is al-Firdous al-Ala.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ
O ye who believe! Fear Allah as He should be feared, and die not except in a state of Islam.
(Ali-Imran: 102)
Source: Moazzam Begg
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