CAN 1.5 BILLION MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD BE WRONG?
NUMBERS DO COUNT FOR A LOT. ATTACKING ISLAM IN THE MOST SUBTLE OR CRUDE WAY IS PROMOTING ISLAM IN THE MOST SUBTLE AND CRUDE WAY, TOO!
By Mansor Puteh
So, what it all means is that the enemies of Islam are the propagators of Islam! And by demonizing Islam, they are also demonizing their own religion even more, for allowing them to do that!
This is not reverse psychology, but the truth, the way Islam spreads throughout the world and beyond.
Because the real propagators of Islam comprising those who are Muslims had failed in performing their duty to explain the religion to the others, the duty is nowtaken over by the enemies of the religion, in ways that cannot be imagined by anyone, especially by the hardcore enemies of Islam.
So, hatred of Islam is really about the hating of their own religions, which they had left, or not bothered to practice. Those who love their own religions, whatever they may be, do not have problems dealing with Islam, and who will not find fault with it, accepting it as the religion of those who believe in it, too, as much as they do theirs.
Remember: The leader of the pack that went to destroy the Babri Masjid in India thinking that the masjid sat on the former site of an ancient Hindu temple, reverted to Islam when he went to work in Dubai.
And closer to home, there was this Hindu man in Cheras, Malaysia, who tried to stop the City Hall officers from demolishing his ‘home-made’ temple later took the initiative to destroy it, after he decided to revert to Islam, taking with him his entire family and close friends. Now he heads a masjid with a madrassah (religious school) for other reverts to Islam, who were former people of his earlier faith.
A Catholic former classmate of mine reverted to Islam causing his parents and brothers and sisters to take up arms to go against him. They later joined him to become Muslims.
Numbers really do count most of the time. That there are more people in the world who profess the Islamic faith than the others.
Sometimes they also get lost in the calculation which is clouded by emotions and perceptions, and whose existence is questioned by mere mortals who use common sense and logic as their only weapon.
The fact that Islam has the largest number of believers compared to the other religions including the two other Abrahamic ones, in practically all the countries in the world and there are more people who are reverting to the religion every day, compared to the other religions, should be a matter of great concern.
It is also telling how Islam is not one of the most ancient of all religions; but the last of the Abrahamic faiths, and much younger than the others, having been around only since the last 1,430 years.
Most of the ancient religions had become extinct or faded away, including those that allowed hedonism and all sorts of freedoms. Yet, they all allowed their believers to leave these religions.
So can 1.5 billion Muslims and the many others who are reverting to Islam every day, be wrong? How so?
Just because they had chosen the ‘wrong’ religion? So how many people can be wrong every day? Something is not right if this is the case?
Can one person or a small group of persons who question Islam be given attention than the fact that the religion is believed unquestioningly by the others? Is it therefore, not the fault of the few?
Unless, if numbers do not count for much, and that they do not add up to much.
Are Muslim women repressed and suppressed? Why are Muslims made to feel subjugated and subordinated to a ‘being’ which is not seen or heard, compared to those that have forms and shapes and are objects? And they also read an ancient book which cannot be rewritten or defaced?
If there are about 40% women in the Muslim fraternity, then we can estimate that there are 600 million women in the world who are Muslims.
They are too many to be repressed and suppressed by their religion, before they take action. But they are not. Chances are they are not going to do that.
If there are women who are repressed and suppressed, it is because of the trends that had emerged which forced them to be so.
The reason being, they do not think or feel that they are being repressed or suppressed.
Only those who feel so are mostly those who do not care for her religion. They are so few of them, who want to be free of any encumbrances, and be ‘liberated’. But how can they be so, when they are mostly bonded to their husbands, by taking his surname and rejecting her own?
Most Muslim women are not bonded to their husbands this way; they get to keep their original names, intact, unlike in the West, where they have to give up their maiden names, most of the time.
Some smart women use both their maiden names as well as their husbands’ surnames, which may be fanciful but ridiculous. Because look like they are lost; they are not sure who they are – their own person, or part of someone else. They are not human beings, but human-beings, the hyphenated persons.
The truth of the matter is that the attacks on Islam is but one of the way used by the others to criticize the religion.
But the real truth is that it is also another device that is being used to PROMOTE ISLAM, so the more Islam is attacked or criticized, the more the others also talk about it, and the more they also learn about Islam this way.
Worse, the more they attack Muslim countries, the more their own countries and their citizens are exposed to their own cruelty.
And worst, the more Muslims they kill, slaughter, maim and torture, the more they believe that their actions are wrong.
The enemies of Islam do not know what’s eating them. All they need to do it for them to stop the torture, bombings and killing of Muslims and look around them to see the many masjids sprouting in their neighborhoods, some which were formerly temples houses of worships of their own religions which they had left long ago.
And many Muslims who used to cling loosely to their religion before, especially when they were very young and vulnerable, are now the ones who are steadfastedly clinging onto it even more.
This is all due to everything that they read in the media and see around them, seeing the many fellow Muslims in other regions in the world who had to die in defense of their religion and were persecuted by major forces using the most sophisticated weapons of mass destruction their top scientists could create.
The dead Muslims had not left empty-handed; they had made the Muslims who are still alive and have not been harmed in any way or the other, to feel even better with themselves and their religion.
So if any Muslim man or woman is stopped by the security officers at any airport in America or the West, he can feel relieved that he is being tested for his faith. That the security officers are asking him to stress his religious belief even more.
That he has been singled out to receive this wonderful treatment.
By Mansor Puteh
So, what it all means is that the enemies of Islam are the propagators of Islam! And by demonizing Islam, they are also demonizing their own religion even more, for allowing them to do that!
This is not reverse psychology, but the truth, the way Islam spreads throughout the world and beyond.
Because the real propagators of Islam comprising those who are Muslims had failed in performing their duty to explain the religion to the others, the duty is nowtaken over by the enemies of the religion, in ways that cannot be imagined by anyone, especially by the hardcore enemies of Islam.
So, hatred of Islam is really about the hating of their own religions, which they had left, or not bothered to practice. Those who love their own religions, whatever they may be, do not have problems dealing with Islam, and who will not find fault with it, accepting it as the religion of those who believe in it, too, as much as they do theirs.
Remember: The leader of the pack that went to destroy the Babri Masjid in India thinking that the masjid sat on the former site of an ancient Hindu temple, reverted to Islam when he went to work in Dubai.
And closer to home, there was this Hindu man in Cheras, Malaysia, who tried to stop the City Hall officers from demolishing his ‘home-made’ temple later took the initiative to destroy it, after he decided to revert to Islam, taking with him his entire family and close friends. Now he heads a masjid with a madrassah (religious school) for other reverts to Islam, who were former people of his earlier faith.
A Catholic former classmate of mine reverted to Islam causing his parents and brothers and sisters to take up arms to go against him. They later joined him to become Muslims.
Numbers really do count most of the time. That there are more people in the world who profess the Islamic faith than the others.
Sometimes they also get lost in the calculation which is clouded by emotions and perceptions, and whose existence is questioned by mere mortals who use common sense and logic as their only weapon.
The fact that Islam has the largest number of believers compared to the other religions including the two other Abrahamic ones, in practically all the countries in the world and there are more people who are reverting to the religion every day, compared to the other religions, should be a matter of great concern.
It is also telling how Islam is not one of the most ancient of all religions; but the last of the Abrahamic faiths, and much younger than the others, having been around only since the last 1,430 years.
Most of the ancient religions had become extinct or faded away, including those that allowed hedonism and all sorts of freedoms. Yet, they all allowed their believers to leave these religions.
So can 1.5 billion Muslims and the many others who are reverting to Islam every day, be wrong? How so?
Just because they had chosen the ‘wrong’ religion? So how many people can be wrong every day? Something is not right if this is the case?
Can one person or a small group of persons who question Islam be given attention than the fact that the religion is believed unquestioningly by the others? Is it therefore, not the fault of the few?
Unless, if numbers do not count for much, and that they do not add up to much.
Are Muslim women repressed and suppressed? Why are Muslims made to feel subjugated and subordinated to a ‘being’ which is not seen or heard, compared to those that have forms and shapes and are objects? And they also read an ancient book which cannot be rewritten or defaced?
If there are about 40% women in the Muslim fraternity, then we can estimate that there are 600 million women in the world who are Muslims.
They are too many to be repressed and suppressed by their religion, before they take action. But they are not. Chances are they are not going to do that.
If there are women who are repressed and suppressed, it is because of the trends that had emerged which forced them to be so.
The reason being, they do not think or feel that they are being repressed or suppressed.
Only those who feel so are mostly those who do not care for her religion. They are so few of them, who want to be free of any encumbrances, and be ‘liberated’. But how can they be so, when they are mostly bonded to their husbands, by taking his surname and rejecting her own?
Most Muslim women are not bonded to their husbands this way; they get to keep their original names, intact, unlike in the West, where they have to give up their maiden names, most of the time.
Some smart women use both their maiden names as well as their husbands’ surnames, which may be fanciful but ridiculous. Because look like they are lost; they are not sure who they are – their own person, or part of someone else. They are not human beings, but human-beings, the hyphenated persons.
The truth of the matter is that the attacks on Islam is but one of the way used by the others to criticize the religion.
But the real truth is that it is also another device that is being used to PROMOTE ISLAM, so the more Islam is attacked or criticized, the more the others also talk about it, and the more they also learn about Islam this way.
Worse, the more they attack Muslim countries, the more their own countries and their citizens are exposed to their own cruelty.
And worst, the more Muslims they kill, slaughter, maim and torture, the more they believe that their actions are wrong.
The enemies of Islam do not know what’s eating them. All they need to do it for them to stop the torture, bombings and killing of Muslims and look around them to see the many masjids sprouting in their neighborhoods, some which were formerly temples houses of worships of their own religions which they had left long ago.
And many Muslims who used to cling loosely to their religion before, especially when they were very young and vulnerable, are now the ones who are steadfastedly clinging onto it even more.
This is all due to everything that they read in the media and see around them, seeing the many fellow Muslims in other regions in the world who had to die in defense of their religion and were persecuted by major forces using the most sophisticated weapons of mass destruction their top scientists could create.
The dead Muslims had not left empty-handed; they had made the Muslims who are still alive and have not been harmed in any way or the other, to feel even better with themselves and their religion.
So if any Muslim man or woman is stopped by the security officers at any airport in America or the West, he can feel relieved that he is being tested for his faith. That the security officers are asking him to stress his religious belief even more.
That he has been singled out to receive this wonderful treatment.
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