Jawed Anwar
Samuel Paty, 47, a middle school teacher in the suburb of Paris, France, was teaching “the freedom of expression” to his students by ridiculing and making fun of Prophet Muhammad ï·º. He was showing cartoons of Prophet Muhammadï·º playing with the honour, respect and dignity of the Prophet Muhamamd ï·º.
Being a history teacher Samuel Paty knew well and for sure that Muslims love Prophet Muhammadï·º more than anyone and anything in this world. He knew well that Muslims love Muhammadï·º, the Messenger of God, more than their parents, their children and their family. He knew well how a Muslim would react to his blasphemous abominable acts.
A few years ago, on January 7, 2015, in the same city, Paris, France, the cartoonist and Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier was among the 12 people killed in an attack at the magazine’s office in Paris. Stephane Charbonnier and his team had been punching in the hearts and souls of two billion Muslims worldwide. According to a Russian proverb, they were “spitting in the souls” of Muslims.
Samuel Paty knowingly did the same thing with his student Abdullah Abouyedovich Anzorov, 18. As a result, Ghazi Abdullah helped Mr. Paty in his suicidal act on October 16, 2020.
Ghazi Abdullah Anzorov Sheeshan Shaheed
Police could easily overcome Ghazi Abdullah and bring him to their court of justice. But they preferred to shoot Abdullah to kill him on the spot. This jungle law is the rule of law and freedom that France is teaching us.
It is sad to note that instead of criticizing and condemning Samuel Paty for his stupidity, cruelty, and blasphemy, the world, including liberal Muslim scholars, is condemning Ghazi Abdullah Sheeshan Shaheed. No one pointed out the brutal murder of him by French police without bringing him to any court of justice and without knowing the real reason for the murder of Samuel Paty.
There is a difference between intentional murder and provoked the attack, and all the criminal code of law of the world differentiates it.
If Abdullah were alive, he could tell what happened and what Samuel Paty had been teaching him. How many times Abdullah tried to teach his teacher to stop hate against the Prophet ï·º, how Abdullah had been feeling in the history class of Samuel Paty. French police and the Macron government didn’t want to hear a single word from another side of the story.
It is liberal fascism.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced Samuel Paty the “quiet hero” and “the face of the Republic” and presented the teacher’s family with the nation’s highest honour.
In response, two billion Muslims recognized Abdullah Sheeshan, their hero, a veteran and a martyr. Check the funeral of Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the biggest supporter of Ghazi Abdullah Shaheed and a prominent name as a protector of honour of Prophet Muhammadï·º in Pakistan. According to different estimates, three to ten million Muslims attended his funeral. It is the referendum of the Muslim Ummah that there will be no compromise in protecting the honour and dignity of Prophet Muhammadï·º.
Check the hypocrisy of the Western political powers;
When you attack black people, they call it racism. When you attack a country, they call it terrorism. When you attack homosexuality, they call it intolerance. When you attack women, they call it gender discrimination. When you attack Jews, they call it anti-Semitism. But when they attack Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), they call it freedom of speech.
It is liberal fascism.
When you question anything on the holocaust or even criticize Israeli Zionists’ present oppression of Palestinians, you can be labelled as an anti-Semite, and your freedom of speech will be crushed.
All the divine scriptures available on this earth guide us against homosexuality. But if you say anything against homosexuality and the LGBT lifestyle, you will be labelled a homophobe, and your freedom of speech will be seized.
However, when someone ridicules and dishonours the Islam, the Quran, and the last Messenger of God Muhammad ï·º, it is allowed as a “freedom of speech.”
It is liberal fascism.
Mr. Macron spent no time when he changed himself from “liberal democrat” to “Nazi Hitler.”
Some of his actions that display his Nazism;
- He ordered to show Cartoons of the Prophet in public places.
- End homeschooling and ensure public schooling in France.
- Muslim children will be tagged to force their “public” schooling.
It is liberal fascism.
And it is unacceptable.
One thousand four hundred forty-one years of Islamic history proves that Muslims can tolerate any oppression on them but cannot tolerate an attack on the life and dignity of Prophet Muhammad ï·º. It is the consensus of the Muslim Ummah from the very beginning, and there is no difference of opinion in any school of thought on Islam.
Muslims have the right and responsibility to get revenge for dishonouring the prophets of God, particularly the last Messenger Muhamamdï·º.
Umar Farooq (RA), Abdullah bin Umar (RA), Hussain Bin Ali (RA), Umar Bin Abdul Aziz, Scholars of Ihnaf (Hanfi), Imam Shafei, Imam Malik, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Abu Bakr Farsi, Imam ibn Taimiya, Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Allama Ismail Haqqi, Abu Bakr Bin Manzer, Imam Ahmed Bin Ibrahim, Abdullah Bin Iqab, Habeeb Bin Rabea Farwi, Ibn e Qane, and all rightly guided scholars of Islam of our history, peace and mercy on all them, were at the same page on this issue.
Western guided/influenced scholars, Hamza Yusuf, Yasir Qadhi, Waheeduddin Khan, Javed Ghamdi, professional scholars of Islamic Conferences, enslaved-minded Indian scholars, and others can’t change it.
They blamed Muslims for attacking a church in Nice, France, without any proof or confirmation. However, there is no relationship between the Church attack and the cartoon controversy.
Make the record clear! Muslims never attacked any religious place in revenge for blasphemy in history. Muslims who revenged to the individuals for blasphemy never begged to pardon and protected their own life.
Muslims are not allowed to ridicule any religious figures, their symbols, and their gods;
“Do not revile those whom they invoke other than Allah, because they will revile Allah in ignorance out of spite” (Al-Quran 6:108).
How can Muslims tolerate it when it happens to them?
Journalist Peter Allen, based in Paris, told Al Jazeera TV Channel that while everyone condemns these attacks, he does not believe there is “enough appreciation of how Muslims feel in France about constant attacks on their religion and this portrayal of Muslims through these Charlie Hebdo cartoons”.
“[They’re portrayed as] being cretinous, being outside of society, they’re just figures to be mocked and laughed at. If you put any other social group in that position and said the government is going to support these attacks on you, there would be an outcry,” Allen said.
Most Muslim immigrants living in France are not other than those countries occupied by France in the past.
The first wave of French occupation started in the 16th century onward that existed till 1814, called the “First French Colonial Empire. Most of the occupied territories were later destroyed, lost or sold. The second wave of the French Colonial Empire, which began with the conquest of Muslim Algiers in 1830, later occupied most of Muslim Africa. At its apex, the Second French colonial empire was one of the largest empires in history. Including metropolitan France, the total amount of land under French occupation reached 11,500,000 km2 (4,400,000 sq mi) in 1920, with 110 million people in 1936.
Millions of people were slaughtered, their resources were plundered, and the people of Africa were enslaved. They had no freedom even to cry.
France should see her face in the mirror before talking about “freedom.”
Only those who don’t know history can buy France’s cheap rhetoric of “freedom” of expression.
Just like America bombed and destroyed Iraq in recent history to teach “democracy,” “France claimed that Africa’s occupation was to teach “civilization.”
“A major goal was the Mission civilisatrice or “The Civilizing Mission”; ‘Civilizing’ the populations of Africa through spreading language and religion were used as justifications for many of the brutal practices that came with the French colonial project.”
[1. Herbert Ingram Priestley (2018). France Overseas: A Study of Modern Imperialism. p. 192, ISBN 9781351002417. 2. Mathew Burrows,” ‘Mission civilisatrice’: French cultural policy in the Middle East, 1860–1914.” Historical Journal 29.1 (1986): 109–135.]
Ironically, the world’s most uncivilized and brutal empire had been teaching civilization to the world’s most civilized nations.
Today, Muslim and African immigrants living in France are the progenies of those whose lands and resources were looted and plundered. The French empire enslaved their ancestors. Now, France has been treating them as a beggar.
On the French government’s blasphemous act and their humiliating of Muslims worldwide, the minimum thing the Muslim world should do;
- Boycott French products/services;
- Sever diplomatic relations; send back the French diplomats and bring back your diplomats from France.
Turkey did it.
We are waiting for others to follow.
Pakistan’s government promised Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi (R. A.) to do it one month after proper legislation. They signed a written agreement. We are waiting for its accomplishment and hope it will not be “U turned” by Imran Khan as he proudly did it on his several promises.