Cartoongate: Déjà vu All Over Again?
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Just as Medieval Europe created fear-fantasies about
Jews, "Christ-killers" who apparently ate children, so too did they produce a
miasma of animus directed toward the Prophet Muhammad.
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The overreactions to these cartoons that I have seen
show an unsightliness that is antithetical to the personality and message of
Prophet Muhammad. But what the intense dudgeon does reveal is a funk uncovered
by the cartoons, a funk perhaps associated with a variety of things, like
economic and political cul-de-sacs systemic in the Muslim east. The
intelligentsia of the Muslim world needs to honestly unpack the meaning of the
reactions to these cartoons because clearly something else is afoot.
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Nearly every Muslim knows that disparagement of the
Prophet of Islam is hardly new. Just as Medieval Europe created fear-fantasies
about Jews, "Christ-killers" who apparently ate children, so too did they
produce a miasma of animus directed toward the Prophet Muhammad.
...
The Muslim response to the Medieval venom was, in the
main, intellectual, secure, and civil - a reaction that reflects not weakeness
but "psychological invincibility" of Muslims of the time, as the late Prof.
Fazlur Rahman (University of Chicago) so aptly observed in his book
Islam. The violent reactions to these cartoons today reflect, I'm afraid,
vincibility.
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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