KUALA LUMPUR, Sat: Former Prime Minister Tun Dr
Mahathir Mohamad called upon Muslims worldwide to boycott Dutch
products in protest of a film released Monday on the Internet which
criticised Islam’s holy book, the Quran.“We must not be afraid
of losing trade with them. If we do, then we won’t be thinking as
Muslims, but more for our own self intersts,” he told reporters after
opening the Malaysian Islamic Welfare Organisation’s (Perkim) 46th
annual general meeting at a hotel here, today.Dr Mahathir was referring to Fitna,
a 15-minute film posted on a website on Thursday that highly criticised
Islam, setting verses of the Quran against a background of violent
images from terrorist attacks.
Dutch legislator Geert Wilders created the film, which also shows
statements from radical clerics and cited verses from the Quran
interspersed with images of the Sept 11 attack on the United States,
the 2004 commuter train bombings in Spain and the murder later that
year of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on an Amsterdam street.“They
will continue to do this until we show to them Islam is a good
religion, that we are not violent people, that we don’t tell lies to
people...but this must be shown in practice by the Muslim community,”
he said.http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/ Saturday/NewsBreak/20080329161819/Article/index_htmlAdministrator''sIdea:Legalization
of Gay, women and children trafficking for sex, weeds. I know that The
Hague is in this country but that doesn’t change anything, does it?
Before criticizing Islam, they might want to ask what ‘color’ their
history of colonization is. Is it white or is it blood-stained? On the
other hand, Tarikh el-Islam or The History of Islam is undeniably just-driven. This
is certainly not a vague claim. Check your history books and
commentaries but NOT those ‘edited’ or written by figures like wafa
sultan (!). The administrator watched this disturbing video of Fitna
on YouTube and could not understand why this case-sensitive video was
not banned. Do they really NEED Muslims to launch another ‘
boycott attack’? So be it. The administrator stands
strong with Dr M’s call for Muslims around the globe to rally against
Dutch products until they take away this video, until YouTube does
something about it and until Geert Wilders apologizes to all Muslims
around the world, OPENLY. Here are reasons why: 1> --1--The Quranic translations within this video are unspecific without considering the target group of the Surahs and the reasons for revelations (Asbaab e-Nuzul) rendering the entire video invalid. 2> --2--The
video shows images of Muslims and connects these images with terrorism
but does not inform the viewers of the source of the images and how the
two entities connect. This is less than informative and is illogical. 3> --3--The
creator of the video is motivated by fallacious hatred and not by
intention to seek truth and reveal it as the compilation made has too
broad a perspective that viewers could not determine the similarity
which the clips share. Again, the target group of the speeches in the
clips (in Arabic and English) and the intentions of the speeches were
not revealed showing how the creator is eager of implementing fallacies. 4> --4--The
Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) cartoons, we knew, created turmoil and
unrests. Yet, the creator included one of them and repeatedly too
suggesting that THEY ASKED FOR IT. 5> --5--One
of the clips involves a small child’s expression. This is totally
unacceptable. Labeling an innocent child to be a zealot is universally
WRONG. Blame the parents if you wish but LEAVE THE CHILD ALONE-tabula
rasa-. (not another one of your ‘child trafficking’ now, is it?). 6> --6--The
intention of the video is crystal clear; to label all Muslims to have
AT LEAST the smallest urge to commit crime in the name of their
religion. This is definitely wrong as in the Quran, ALLAH S.W.T.
commands all Muslims to treat humans fairly regardless of their
religion. AN example to this is;”O ye who believe! stand
out firmly for Allah, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the
hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from
justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear Allah. For Allah is
well-acquainted with all that ye do.”
-wonder why they INTENTIONALLY missed this one in the video-. 7> --7--It is not true that Huduud
(a branch of Islamic Law to punishment of adultery, thievery, et
cetera, crimes) is cruel. A proof to this is the case which occurred
long time ago in the age of Muhammad (PBUH) and amongst the Sahaabah
in which Muaz (Allah is well pleased with him) committed adultery but
the noble prophet REFUSED to IMMEDIATELY take action on him. This is a
good example of how it is VERY HARD to actually deliver the punishment
of Huduud. 8> --8--Would
it be fair for us to rule the commentaries made by the Palestinians in
this video to be inhumane as we do not go through their sorrows and
hardships of living in a ravaging battlefield, of having children be
killed mercilessly among them, of having bloody history like the
‘ethnic cleansing’ of Shatilla and Sabra and of being ignored? Would it
be fair for the non-Muslims to label ALL Muslims as terrorist (what
Islamophobia suggests) while not bothering about the truth (9-11 report
was INCOMPLETE and closed despite private investigating committees’
dissatisfactions suggesting high probability of conspiracy). Geert Wilders is the LAST kind of man a peaceful world needs. Let us boycott their products (peaceful mean).And
I wonder why The Sun newspaper is not so concern of this issue like
their ''buddy''; NST. All they ever publish are claims of individuals
''attacking'' Islam with weak ideas. SAY NO TO;Philips electronics, KLM, G-Star jeans, Shell oil, theSun newspaper ("we trade you, our readers, with ads") ++go to++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dutch_companiesLET THEM HAVE IT.