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History is repeating itself. And we need to wake up
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the Islamophobia narrative
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History is repeating itself. And we need to wake up
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the Islamophobia narrative
100 years ago the hatred of a certain faith group led a whole genocide on a group of people. The Holocaust. For more than two decades the Jews were stigmatised, scapegoated and ‘other-ised’.
They were referred to as the ‘Jewish Problem’, they were known as the ‘other’. Nowadays politicians, world leaders are using the term ‘Muslim Problem’. What was the ‘Jewish solution’ that Hitler enacted...
100 years ago they stigmatised Jewish rituals, the Jewish cap, the slaughtering of animals as something barbaric. And these days it’s the hijab, the personal laws and purity, how we are living our lives. We are made to be the other. We are somehow not like the rest of society...
100 years ago they claimed that the Jewish people were aiming to destroy the empire of Germany, that they were a fifth column, that u can never trust them, that their entire goal was to destroy the very country that they had lived in for hundreds of years & people believed it...
these days, the claim explicitly mentioned on Fox News, hundreds of times, mentioned by politicians without any shame; ‘the Muslims want to implement sharia law’.
And then this lie is thrown that the goal of this minority is to overthrow the majority, forget the fact that it is impossible, but people don’t think rationally.
Jews in Germany were in the single digits, how could such a small group have overthrown the majority. But people believed and they still believe. People love to jump onto stereotypes and lies- it makes them feel good by stigmatising other people.
100 years ago, after the culture wars, the ‘other’-ising, actual laws were passed targeting the Jewish community, one law after another was in place limiting people from practising their faith, limiting their rights to education, to work and it kept getting worse and worse.
Nowadays, in France they have banned the hijab in public schools, just as they banned the kipper 100 years ago, they have banned the coming of a hijabi into a government building/positions/parliament. U cannot wear a ‘Muslim garment’ & be in the public offices of the government.
In some provinces of Switzerland, the building of the minaret is banned, the niqab has been banned in half a dozen European countries, despite there being barely thousands of Muslims wearing niqab in those lands. Yet they have banned it & criminalised it.
In France, you will be fined for not wearing a facemask, but if that facemask is a niqab you will be fined for wearing a niqab.
100 years ago, the crimes of one group against the other were exaggerated. This is what we are seeing right now with the cartoon crisis. Despite Muslims across the globe condemning the murder.
Look up the Dreyfus affair, an innocent Jewish man was accused of being a traitor to the country. Yet he did nothing. We see this being repeated again. Look up the Reichstag fire. Every Muslim needs to be aware of it.
The Reichstag fire was when the German parliament was bombed, and then Hitler immediately blamed the Jews. Because of this one incident, Hitler asked to be given power and was given unilateral powers.
Many prominent historians are looking back now at this event and have come to the conclusion that it was the party itself that bombed its own building.
Then within a few months of this, Hitler invaded Poland, the concentration camps began and over 11 million human beings were intentionally killed because they were not on Hitler’s program. This was only 100 years ago. Do not underestimate the power of brainwashing.
The purpose of all this isn’t to doom us all, but it’s so that we learn from history, and place our trust in Allah. That we don’t just act out of emotion, but with wisdom and long-term planning.
What can we do?
- renew our faith/imaan in Allah, as they did in Badr, if Allah is with us, then nothing can overcome us.
- renew our faith/imaan in Allah, as they did in Badr, if Allah is with us, then nothing can overcome us.
- demonstrate what it means to love our Prophet (S), that’s not going to happen if we respond to violence with violence. First we need to ask ourselves if we have lived up to the image of the Prophet (S). Have we done our job to show our neighbours, friends, who our Prophet is.
Have we embodied his sunnah, have we walked in his footsteps? If the people around us could see even a little bit of his sunnah, character, rahma, sidq in our lives, would they believe the media?!
- To be active in our societies, this is part of his sunnah.
- To be active in our societies, this is part of his sunnah.
Don’t just preach the love of the Prophet (S), demonstrate it. Be just like Muhammad (S).
All of this was a summary of the lecture that @YasirQadhi gave, here is the link, I very much recommend listening:
