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Assalamualaikum.

I don't want to write about this subject. Reading the papers (since post 9-11, actually) saddens me. Sometimes it truly amazes me how some people just never learn that we are DIFFERENT. If you can't accept that, there is no hope of moving on. Tolerance? Tolerate what? There's a sense of arrogance in the word "Tolerance" such that by being tolerant, you feel that you are giving a leeway, doing a favour, looking down at the people you "tolerate". There is a sense of superiority. I personally do not like that word. The word should be "respect".

We are different. Respect that! After that, we can get to know one another, and live in peace.

(The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 109), Bismillahhirrahmanirrahiim.
Say: O ye that reject Faith! I worship not that which ye worship, Nor will ye worship that which I worship. And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship, Nor will ye worship that which I worship. To you be your Way, and to me mine

You can never fathom about what you did. You never know how much we love our prophet, peace be upon him. That is how much we love him, Everytime we mention his name, we say"peace be upon him". Its like saying "I love him" everytime i mention his name. We love him and testify that each time in the 5 daily prayers. We testify that when we make our prayer calls, we let it be known to the world. If you think about it, there is not a single second on this earth where his name is not being called, the moment the prayer call ends in one place is where it starts in the neighbouring place, and so on, until his name, is proclaimed and our love professed, over and over again, around the world, every single second. I love my father, my mother, my family and would defend them from harm, and insults. We all do, its logical. But I love my prophet, peace be upon him (yes, i say that ALL the time-sincerely) even more. So it is logical why I am very upset.

You will never know because you don't want to know. You can never accept that because you can't even accept that we are different. You make fun of your god, and your religion all the time, in your movies, your jokes, your daily lives. Because you worship yourselves, and you equate freedom as doing whatever you feel like doing, about being your own God. Of all the -isms in the world, they are all just Humanism in essence. Arrogance of a creation in the face of the Creator. A theory that we evolve from microbes and became the masters of the universe. And that is why you mock your god and your religion. Because you worship yourselves. If you worship god, then why are you so arrogant? even to your own god. We take our religion seriously. Because we belive the truth. The truth that there is only One God, and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, is His messenger. The simple fact that there is The God and no matter how big our head is, our life time is too short, and too insignificant.

If you can't see all that, its because you don't know Islam. Its either you are uninformed or misinformed. I dare you to go to any bookshops or library, look under the section of "Religions: Islam" and you will find that 70% of the books you find will be books against Islam. Even the ones neutral or supporting Islam is not written by Muslims. You look at other sections about other religions, and you will find that ALL of them are supportive and at least neutral about what they write. But its like that. It's always been like that. We are seen, judged, stereotyped but never heard. Because you belive that you are "experts". And history is being re-written all the time. And your children will follow your steps and learn from your expertise.

And how are you going to undestand why we are very upset? You can make fun of Osama all you want, the way that you make fun of Bush all the time. It's funny. I laughed as much as you do. But while muslims make mistakes just like everyonelse, Islam does not. We belive that Islam is the truth, what you belive is up to you, but that is what we belive. When you insult that truth, you are insulting our very existence, our reason to live.

Its funny how we can be invisible and totally ignored when one in every 5 people in this world are muslims. But you can't even differentiate between an Arab and a Muslim (or even a Sikh and a Muslim)

Fortunately, i've met many non-muslims who are kind, and they are some of the best individuals i've ever met. And to many of them, I'm the only muslim they have ever come across. And we became friends, because we learn about our differences, and respect them.

Unfortunately, the rest of the world don't. Even if the are, what are the chances of any good things coming up in the papers/media these days?