Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Burma Killing - Muslims sleep while Muslims get slayed.

"The example of Muslims in their mutual love, mercy and sympathy is like that of a body, if one of the organs is afflicted, the whole body responds with sleeplessness and fever' - (Hadith-Muslim)

To tell a little about Burma, it is a country in Asia, bordered by India, China, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos. It is a Buddhist state which has a Muslim minority who migrated from the neighboring countries, mostly during the British rule back in 1921. Muslim minority in Burma has been suppressed by the Buddhist on the basis of their beliefs. The initiation point of this bigotry is suggested to be the Islamic way of killing a cattle which was first banned in 1500 Ad. Then later in 17th century, four prominent Muslim Imams were killed by the Burmese king after they refused to eat pork. Persecution and killing of Muslims has been going on ever since. (source:wikipedia)

The 969 group who is held responsible for Muslim oppression and killing in Burma is led by Ashin Wirathu, a monk.Yes, a MONK...and like every other Muslim I'd give myself a little freedom to question that whether the world would regard monks as terrorist as well? and would Buddhism would be regarded as a religion of violence, terror and discrimination? Yesterday, I read a story on Burma killing by BBC and whoever wrote it, clearly stated that 'aggressive thoughts are inimical to Buddhism' and that Buddhism is a religion of peace...it is useless to tell them that so is Islam. But these puppet channels would never write a defensive comment about Islam and who we are to blame them when Muslims all over the world are doing nothing to protect their name, their ideology. It is an ironic joke to watch media haste to post about Hamza Ali Abbasi's recent status but not take the trouble of promulgating the relentless killing of Muslims in Burma.







Muslim babies being burned alive.


(Image source: twitter)

Wisdom would never accuse any religion for invigorating terrorism. A sage would never declare a Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jew etc as a terrorist. He would know terrorism is a wild thing present inside every human either starved or nurtured. Because this is our truth..human is the peace makers, human is the terrorist, there is nothing else to blame.

The hadith I mentioned above tells us how we Muslims should feel about this massacre. We should be sleepless, we should be praying, we should be feeling their agony, our souls should tremble at the thought of it but none of it will happen with the state of Iman we have.  We must return to ourselves, we must embrace our identity.