Our Political Vision | Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

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Our Political Vision
By Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

We should remember that the worst tyrants of the Arab World in our modern history did not rule in the name of Islam but in the name of secularism and democracy. Their first victims were not the secularists but Muslims who were suppressed and Islamic movements which were banned. Why then are "Islamists" feared and prevented from reaching power. It was not "Islamists" who supported these oppressive regimes; rather the secularists, while the "democratic" world is helping these regimes stop the Islamic tide and applauding them: France supported Ben Ali in Tunisia; the USA supported Mubarak in Egypt; and the EU supported Assad's regime. It is high time we proved that Islam is more tolerant towards its opponents than the fake democracies of the West which protect the secular and eliminate the religious under the claims of fighting extremism. All we are doing is replacing one alleged extremism by another already proven extremist. It is time for Islam to present its vision and solutions to the political, social and economic crises in the Islamic World. For anyone who is trying to predict the future of the Middle East, I say, wait to see the Islamic choice being embraced by our people as the only guarantee to a better future. To all of that we see the start coming from Syria.

 

[nyerekareem]

things are so crazy today. it has always been a tough challenge just to call people to islam, but it seems an even tougher challenge today to present islam as tolerant. what i mean is that so many have their minds made up that islam is violent or intolerant, so much to the point that they will not even consider islam as a viable choice for a religion. there are many nowadays even questioning as to whether islam is a religion at all. muslims worldwide need to clean up the image of islam. too many people have sullied our faith. too often the extremist minority of the faith have been given the majority of the face time. we shouldn't fight to properly defend the religion of islam as to please non-muslims and the critics of islam, but rather because we will not islam's name be dragged through the mud.