Misusing Religion

Thanks to Al-Arabiya website, I got the chance to check out some of the latest cartoons published in Arabic newspapers. 

Two of those cartoons really drew my attention, and made me think of today’s topic. 

The first discussed the (still) developing story about Lebanese singer Suzanne Tameem who was murdered about three months ago in Dubai. Now, of course, there is nothing comic about a brutal murder, but the artist found the “comedy” in the news that an Egyptian businessman is accused of paying an assassin 2 million US$ to carry out that crime. The cartoon shows two terrorists talking to one another with the one holding the newspaper saying to the other: “And they give us 100 US$ to kill 100 Iraqis?! It is true when they say that the Iraqi blood is cheap!” This was and is correct from the terrorists’ perspective. The damned (and rotting) Zarqawi said clearly that it was “ok” to kill civilian Iraqis if they happen to be “in the way”, thus killing scores of thousands of Iraqis. Muqtada’s (the dirty) gangs also killed hundreds and thousands of Iraqis, and they’re as guilty as Al-Qaeda. Yes, they both, and all, made the Iraqi blood cheap. 

In another “Islamists” related issue, a (fluffy bearded) clergyman from Saudi Arabia, called “Mohammed Al-Munjid”, was talking on one of the many Arab satellite channels that have religious programs in Ramadan, and he mentioned that the children of our nation have become addicted to “idolizing” Mickey Mouse, whereas the mice and rats are nothing but harmful creatures, and that “they must be killed wherever they were found”, and “Mickey Mouse is no exception”! Here is the link to translated version of this video.

This made an Arab cartoonist present this drawing of “extremist” Cartoon figures carrying out this Fatwa by “beheading” Mickey Mouse!

In my 30 years of life, out of which there are about 20 years of knowledge, I have never found someone who claims to be a “man of knowledge” in religion, or in any field, who cannot really differentiate what is real (a real mouse) and what is imaginary (Mickey Mouse)! If this is “knowledge” then please don’t tell me about ignorance, or let’s say stupidity.

Every Tom, Dick and Harry, comes and fluffs his beard, and we, or other Muslims in our part of the World or elsewhere pay the price. The price may differ from one case of dealing with a fluffy nutcase to the other, but the price that really hurts is that they made this great and most honorable religion a laughingstock for Westerners, and they (the fluffy beards) have verily been the worst possible “Ambassadors” of this religion!

Give me a bearded (or not bearded) Muslim who doesn’t use the word Nasibi (bad word Shiite fundamentalists use to call Sunnis), or Rafidhi (bad word Sunni fundamentalists use to call Shiites); who doesn't judge people prejudicely; someone who knows how to smile and speak kindly to people; someone whose morals follow the kindness and mercy of Prophet Mohammed, and that would be the real ambassador of Islam; certainly not some guy who thinks that killing (innocent) people isn’t enough, so he wants to have a cartoons hit list!!!