Muslims need to look within themselves, instead of playing victims.
"Saudi scholars slam Swiss minaret ban"-Gulf News by Abdul Rahman Shahee. Several prominent Saudi Islamic scholars and preachers lambasted the recent Swiss referendum to impose ban on the construction of mosque minarets in the country. This people are from a country where other religions are not allowed houses of worship and worshipping in the open could get you into serious trouble, is that not sheer hypocrisy? Carrying a cross or a crucifix could land you in the slammer. How do you say 'hyopcrisy' in Ayyraab?
Then the gall of
the enemy of free speech , the Secretary General of OIC, which groups 57 Muslim countries, qualified the ban as an unfortunate development that would tarnish the image of Switzerland as a country upholding respect for diversity, freedom of religion and human rights, in that same news. Is that not hypocrisy, again? Do Ayyraabs have an inkling or understanding of the word hypocrisy? Is it in their dictionary at all, that they can condemn the Swiss with a straight face?
According to Iman Kurdi, writing in the
Arab News: "And let’s not be hypocrites. If you held a referendum in a Muslim country asking whether the construction of new church steeples should be permitted, you are also likely to get an overwhelming no. So let us not brand this a Swiss phenomenon and let us also remember that it is not the majority of the Swiss population that supported the ban but the majority of those who voted, which if you do the maths comes to 30 percent of the population.”
First, it raises delicate issues of reciprocity in Muslim-Christian relations. A few examples: When Our Lady of the Rosary,
Qatar's first-ever church opened in 2008, it did so minus cross, bell, dome, steeple, or signboard. Rosary's priest, Father Tom Veneracion, explained their absence: "The idea is to be discreet because we don't want to inflame any sensitivities."
What about the Church in Shah Alam, Malaysia, the Church of Divine Mercy? Remember,
it took more than 20 years from 1977 to 2005 to build and it looks like a factory, religious symbols must be discreet, it is located in an industrial park. See image above.
And when the Christians of a town in Upper
Egypt, Nazlet al-Badraman, finally after four years of "laborious negotiation, pleading, and grappling with the authorities," won permission in October to restore a tottering tower at the Mar-Girgis Church, a
mob of about 200 Muslims attacked them, throwing stones and shouting Islamic and sectarian slogans. The situation for Copts is so bad, they have reverted to building
secret churches.
Why, the
Catholic Church and others are asking, should Christians suffer such indignities while Muslims enjoy full rights in historically Christian countries? The Swiss vote fits into this new spirit. Islamists, of course, reject this premise of equality; Iranian foreign minister
Manouchehr Mottaki warned his Swiss counterpart of unspecified "consequences" of what he called anti-Islamic acts, implicitly threatening to make the minaret ban an international issue comparable to the
Danish cartoon fracas of 2006.
Second, Europe stands at a crossroads with respect to its Muslim population. Of the
three main future prospects – everyone getting along, Muslims dominating, or Muslims rejected – the first is highly improbable but the second and third seem equally possible. In this context, the Swiss vote represents a potentially important legitimation of anti-Islamic views. The vote inspired support across Europe, as signaled by online polling sponsored by the mainstream media and by statements from leading figures. Here follows a small sampling:
France: 49,000 readers at
Le Figaro, by a 73-27 percent margin, would vote to ban new minarets in their country. 24,000 readers at
L'Express agreed by an 86-12 percent margin, with 2 percent undecided. A leading columnist,
Ivan Rioufol of Le Figaro, wrote an article titled "Homage to the Resistance of the Swiss People." President
Nicolas Sarkozy was quoted as saying that "the people, in Switzerland as in France, don't want their country to change, that it be denatured. They want to keep their identity."
Germany: 29.000 readers at
Der Spiegel voted 76-21 percent, with 2 percent undecided, to ban minarets in Germany. 17,000 readers of
Die Welt voted 82-16 in favor of "Yes, I feel cramped by minarets" over "No, freedom of religion is constrained."
Spain: 14,000 readers of
20 Minutos voted 93-6 percent in favor of the statement "Good, we must curb Islamization's growing presence" and against "Bad, it is an obstacle to the integration of immigrants." 35,000 readers of
El Mondo replied 80-20 percent that they support a Swiss-like banning of minarets.
Although not scientific, the lop-sidedness of these (and
other) polls, ranging from 73 to 93 percent majorities endorsing the Swiss referendum, signal that Swiss voters represent growing anti-Islamic sentiments throughout Europe. The new amendment also validates and potentially encourages resistance to Islamization throughout the continent.
For these reasons, the Swiss vote represents a possible turning point for European Islam.
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