Its getting worse. So far 21 deaths have taken place throughout the Islamic world caused by violence over a silly video clip made by some ex-convict in far away America.
The latest is a suicide attack on a minibus in Kabul, the Afghan capital which killed 12 people on Tuesday, including seven foreigners. The Hezb-e-Islami group claimed responsibility, saying the blast was retaliation for the film mocking the Prophet. "A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in response to the anti-Islam video," said Zubair Sediqqi, a spokesman for the militant faction
In Egypt an al-Qaida-linked Egyptian jihadist, Ahmed Ashoush, issued a religious edict, or fatwa, saying it is justified to kill anyone who took part in the making of the prophet film. His fatwa, posted on a militant website, says the blood of the participants in the movie "should be shed, including the producer, the director and the actors" and that "their killing is a duty of every capable Muslim."
Here are some pictures from around the Islamic countries protesting the video clip.
Picture above : this is the site of that suicide attack in Kabul that killed 12 people. Including the young woman suicide bomber, that makes 13 people dead in Kabul. Nothing has been achieved other than killing people.
Burning your own country and running wild in your own country. This picture above is from Jakarta. And below here is an Indonesian Policeman shooting tear gas at the protesters, his own people.
In the picture below, protesters smashing windows in Sanaa, Yemen. Their own windows.
Protesters practising their gate climbing skills in Sanaa, Yemen. Just after this picture was taken, Police fired shots to disperse them. Demonstrating in your own country and getting shot by your own Police.
This is Tahrir Square, Cairo. The mob is burning cars, their own cars.
The Bangla Bhais did not want to be left out. A protest in Dacca in Bangladesh.
This was Jalalabad in Afghanistan. They are too poor. So they burned dry grass and old tyres. If they had cars and buses they would have burned the cars and buses.
The next picture is Tunis in Tunisia. Police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters.
This is Khartoum in Sudan. There is no US Embassy in Khartoum. So they attacked and burnt the German Embassy instead. No McDonald's or KFC either. No Starbucks. Boring place.
The next picture is the saddest. These are young kids in Afghanistan. That looks like a six year old on the left. Maybe I am mistaken, maybe he is seven years old. The next generation of demonstrators, protesters and suicide bombers. They are already street protesters. Protesting against things they have no idea about or understand about. How many of these kids will become literate in say the next 10 years? How many of them will become suicide bombers? How many of them will live long healthy lives and die natural deaths?
Muslims are in this predicament because they do not follow the teachings of their Prophet in the Quran.
If people throw an insult at you, what should Muslims do? What did the Prophet teach us in the Quran? Surely Muslims must have the faith that the Quran was taught to them by the Prophet. Surely the Muslims must have faith in the Quran.
When faced with insults, annoying language or hurtful words the Prophet taught us in the Quran :
Surah 3:186 "You shall surely be tried in your possessions and your persons and you shallsurely hear many hurtful things from those who were given the Book before you and from those who set up equals to ALLAH. But if you show patience and fortitude and act righteously, that indeed is a matter of high resolve."
Here it is in Malay :
Surah Al Imran : 86 "Demi sesungguhnya, kamu akan diuji pada harta benda dan diri kamu. Dan demi sesungguhnya, kamu akan mendengar dari orang-orang yang telah diberikan Kitab dahulu daripada kamu dan orang-orang yang musyrik: banyak (tuduhan-tuduhan dan cacian) yang menyakitkan hati. Dalam pada itu, jika kamu bersabar dan bertaqwa maka sesungguhnya yang demikian itu adalah dari perkara-perkara yang dikehendaki diambil berat "
Folks, this was written down over 1400 years ago. The Muslims have been hearing and the Muslims will continue to hear hurtful things from other people. They cannot be burning their own cars and getting shot by their own Police each time some satanic provocateur makes a video, writes a book or draws a cartoon.
When faced with such insults we must show more maturity, patience, fortitude and we must act more righteously. That will disarm these provocateurs. The fatwa that everyone who was involved in making that video clip should be killed is therefore completely wrong. It is insane.
If the Muslims also riot and run crazy all the time, then they are only proving true what the provocateurs are saying - that the Muslims are a wild and crazy people.
Please pass this message around. Even if we can save one life or one limb, that would be a good thing.
