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February 27, 2008
We, proudly the African Muslims,
hereby declare our supports this day
Wednesday 27th, February 2008 for
Sudanese government of President Omar
al-Bashir - not the Darfuris! Now that al-Bashir has fulfilled
his promise to act against blasphemous
Denmark, it still worth reasoning with
al-Bashir. After all, the Cause of
Islam is far and far greater than any
other Cause be it Africanism or
Arabism. Republishing of one of the 12 drawings
of a man said to be the Prophet
Muhammad that caused global Muslim
killings two years ago by Danish
racist newspaper Jyllands-Posten and
arrests of one Danish citizen of
Moroccan descent and two Tunisians on
Tuesday for allegations of planning to
murder 73-year-old racist cartoonist
Kurt Westergaard are nothing but
heinous sins that must not go
unpunished.
Yes, the reprinting and the arrests
are a crime of insult and crime of
protecting an insult against the
prophet respectively be it by an
individual as it might be the case for
racist Kurt Westergaard and his
employer Jyllands-Posten or by an
institution as it was the case for the
Danish authority. Yes we are with
al-Bashir and Darfur aside.
Defending Darfuris, what Darfuris?
This is our prophet we are defending. Whatever the reasons, motives or gains
behind Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
declaring his commitment to join in
defending the Prophet from blasphemy,
his promise to expel Danish
organizations, snub its officials and
boycott the country's products in
reaction to cartoons republished in
Denmark insulting Islam's Prophet
Muhammad, as stated on Sunday by the
presidential palace and state news
agency is praiseworthy.
Let us announce it from the horse’s
month or horns: The Muslim must punish the
Danish government whatever way they
could. Boycotting Danish product is an
option among many others... Yes we are
very very angry - we must be angry.
This is our prophet they are talking
about.
Even anti-Islamists could not
understand why each of ignorant people
in the West see themselves as vessels
of free speech with potentials to
cause mass destructions
with their opinions and thoughts.
In their endangering of the whole
world to disregard the racism steeped
inside the twelve Danish cartoons as
well as their own evils to
side with the offense, the Danish
newspapers have decided to kill more
and more by reprinting one of the 12
drawings of a man they referred to as
the Prophet Muhammad that caused
deaths of at least 60 people in 2006
protests in the Middle East, Africa
and Asia.
Knowing Muslims consider any depiction
of the prophet as offensive, five
major daily newspapers, 10 smaller
papers and a Swedish daily reprinted
Westergaard's cartoon, the one that
had caused the greatest controversy
before in their destructive move to
worsen the hostile force of the racist
movement in the European media,
rallying behind Jyllands-Posten's
racist propaganda in the name of free
speech.
A Danish citizen of Moroccan descent
and two Tunisians were arrested on
Tuesday as suspects in a plan to kill
73-year-old Kurt Westergaard, a
cartoonist at Jyllands-Posten, the
Danish newspaper that originally
published the drawings.
The fact is the Danish cartoonist Kurt
Westergaard himself already a killer
by his newspaper unrepentant despite
Danish government’s efforts to hide
behind the cause of promoting a
dialogue about the prophet Muhammad
and Muslim world through its racist
stereotypes prevalent in the West
where the media promote hate
stereotype that Islam is a religion of
terrorists, thieves, and oppressors of
women.
Sheikh Adelabu, who personally knows
relatives of victims of Kurt
Westergaard cartoons killed in
Nigeria, said in one of his lectures
that the Muslims cannot disregard the
cartoons even if its issue had just
ended with the ignorance of a handful
of Danish people, underlying
intolerance in Europe for non-secular
expression that has too often been
generously credited as tolerance.
It would have been easy for newspapers
as hostile to the Muslims as the mainstream American
press, which decided not caving into
pressures and declined to reprint the
cartoons in so-called solidarity with Jyllands-Posten,
as to rally behind the
banner of free speech, unconsciously
promote the hateful ideas of Jyllands-Posten, and thereby become
part of the news themselves,
maintaining their usual positions in
antagonizing the Muslims.
Yes, several young Muslims have - since
the evil act of Kurt Westergaard - been convicted in Denmark of planning
bomb attacks, partly in protest at the
cartoons, which says a lot about the a
handful Western population ready to
find excuse for their prevalent racist
stereotype.
Yes, Denmark's Security and
Intelligence Service said Tuesday's
arrested near Aarhus in western Denmark
were made after lengthy surveillance
in an unproven claim to prevent a murder that was in an
early stage of planning.
But nothing on this planet can absorb
or extinguish the anger Muslims feel
worldwide unless they see justice
carried out on racist murderer Kurt
Westergaard himself. Kurt can
run, he can even hide - as he has been
doing since his unforgivable sin, but
he cannot escape the justice - not
even after his death no matter how
heavy police protections unless he
repents and embraces Islam.
Kurt Westergaard’s evil intention of
causing maximum deaths had reached
beyond its ignorance had anticipated
as his cartoons killed people in the
Muslim world where, more than two
weeks after the controversy began,
after-effects were still being felt
with the first protests against his
evil drawings; causing in Nigeria
hotels and shops being torched by
protesters who ran wild after police
fired tear gas to disperse them;
sparking in Libya clashes -- which
killed 11 -- after the Italian Reforms
Minister, Roberto Calderoli, who later
resigned had worn a T-shirt on TV
bearing the most controversial
cartoon.
The Africans refused unwisdom of
freedom of speech that cause troubles
in their already problematic continent
where tribalism, nationalism,
corruption, and war have already
claimed lives in a large scale and
cause mass destructions.
No, they cannot follow blindfolded
values of the West, which cargoed
their people as commodities chained
and sold in slavery to re-enslave them
under deceit of democracy or freedom
of speech, watching fellow human being
like them in the Muslim world still
being detained, tortured and
humiliated in unidentified holding or
inhumane cells like Abu Ghraib and
Guantanamo.
Even though some of the Africans were
colonized, for instance by France
which bans headscarves and other
religious adornments in schools,
maintaining that country's semblance
of secularism was worth trampling all
over the freedom to practice religion
couching as "for free speech" or
"against Islam."
The idea that Jyllands-Posten should
be given unconditional solidarity when
it faces reactions from the Muslims
regardless of whether the racist paper
at the time used freedom of speech
unwisely and with damaging
consequences is an insult upon
humanity. Solidarity against Islam has
claimed so many lives that it has left
the Africans with no sympathy
whatsoever for victims of so-called
terrorism.
No African really believes any longer
that bombing Afghanistan was about
freeing the women from the Taliban.
The Africans have reasons to not to
believe in religious tolerance when
the Western governments which try to
tack the Ten Commandments in their
courthouses via the Media have failed
to convince that the West values equal
protection under the law when there is
racial profiling, racism attack in
Spanish stadium against the like of
Formula 1 British-born driver Lewis
Hamilton and Barcelona's French-born
footballer Thierry Henry despite their
births amidst the Europeans. That's
another reason why
Esinislam.com has considered
Khartoum's reaction as one of al-Bashir’s
all-time leadership, acknowledging it
as another heroic stance by al-Bashir,
who in the past had sought to protect
Islam and the Muslim figures from
enemies of Islam in the past despite
heavy prices, notably, August 1998
when the Sudanese president got his
country under America’s Clinton siege
when he sheltered the al-Qaeda
leadership.
The Bush Administration must
differentiate, for example, between
reality and the propaganda and
politics that distorted
Sudanese-American relations during the
Clinton years. A previous
administration has already made one
catastrophic mistake with regard to
Sudan, namely the August 1998 cruise
missile attack on the al-Shifa
medicines factory in Khartoum. This
attack seriously undermined America's
standing within the international
community and fuelled resentment
amongst many Third World countries. It
was very possibly one of the reasons
contributing to the United States
being voted off the United Nations
Human Rights Commission and its
replacement by countries such as
Sudan.
The Africans, and Asians for that
matter, cannot believe in free speech
when they see it stand for the freedom
to propagate bigotry and racism. No
wonder the Africans have found, many
of West’s democratic ideals candy
wrappers for imperialistic interests
in the West. The Africans, seeing what
democracies can cost them within weeks
in countries like Kenya and Nigeria,
don’t only find the idea that the war
against Iraq was a war for democracy
is now laughable, they have discovered
it’s a trap from the very people who
traded slavery and colonization on
their soils. |
