There is a tendency among many of the Muslim world writers and commentators to characterize the West as that immense diabolical power, who just sits there waiting to grab any passing opportunity to manipulate Muslims, individuals, institutions and groups for the ultimate purpose of using them for its own end of destroying Islam and Muslims.
It will neither help the Muslim World to understand the west, complicated as it is, nor will it help the Muslim world to understand itself, if we were to resign to that appreciation (Conspiracy theory - big time, as would be described by a friend)
Islam doesn’t need any bad publicity from anyone, be it Salman Rushdie, a Somali female refugee writer, a Danish cartoonist or else. Muslims themselves are doing it. Look at the reaction when someone in the name of Islam shows up and under the glare of video cameras and commit the abominable act of decapitating another human been. Grotesque and defying to believing it has been, hasn’t it. Look at the reaction in the Muslim world and compare to that of the Danish cartoons, when millions took to the streets prepared to die. I am afraid; such inferences would sit deeply at the bottom of the perception of the masses in the West. Such incidences of real life shape the perception as to what Islam is like in reality. No rhetoric on how tolerant Islam is would wash that a way.
It will neither help the Muslim World to understand the west, complicated as it is, nor will it help the Muslim world to understand itself, if we were to resign to that appreciation (Conspiracy theory - big time, as would be described by a friend)
Islam doesn’t need any bad publicity from anyone, be it Salman Rushdie, a Somali female refugee writer, a Danish cartoonist or else. Muslims themselves are doing it. Look at the reaction when someone in the name of Islam shows up and under the glare of video cameras and commit the abominable act of decapitating another human been. Grotesque and defying to believing it has been, hasn’t it. Look at the reaction in the Muslim world and compare to that of the Danish cartoons, when millions took to the streets prepared to die. I am afraid; such inferences would sit deeply at the bottom of the perception of the masses in the West. Such incidences of real life shape the perception as to what Islam is like in reality. No rhetoric on how tolerant Islam is would wash that a way.
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