Dear Bystanders
Please attack bigots when you witness bigotry …. mob attack them.
Don’t tell kids to stand up against bullying when you are a silent bystander to islamophobia and racism.
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Islam, voting is basically being vocal and active in religious arenas. When the moderate mulims didn’t “vote” (being passive and unparticipatory), the Extremists took over Islam and the Islamic agenda.
Muslims are waking up late to that.
We have promoted being vocal and aware from 2005 in IRSHAD. We have promoted departing from sectarian rhetorics and defeating the Sectarian labels. We have promoted re-reading of history and removing immunity from all holy figures and texts. We have promoted a true, honest, and objective re-examining of our Islamic doctrines and positions.
The majority of Muslims agree with our movement and identify with it. But the ones that are willing to “vote” are few. Our speakers were isolated intentionally from all local mosques and conventions and still are.
When people don’t vote, we forfeit truth, and embolden bigotry and hatred.
Always!
Islamophobia is anti Semitic
Average time French people spend eating a day: 150 min (2.5 hours)
In America: 75 min
% who eat with other people in France: 80%
In America: 40%
Eating is a social activity! Our Islamic heritage and Arabic traditions have insisted on eating in groups, talking while eating, and sharing plates.
The only condition for marriage that there is a consensus on by all Muslim scholars is Consent.
Everything else is just a symbol of consent that emphasizes it (like dowry and seegha and announcement), and seen by many scholars as unnecessary.
And the religion of the spouse is irrelevant if there will be no effect on the Muslim spouse’s faith.
With that, Islam might have presented the easiest way in the history of the world for marriage …. basically a consent in the heart. ❤️
All the complications are cultural and legal.
The reason Muslim extremists hijacked the Islamic agenda from Muslim moderates is because they volunteer more time.
Wissam Charafeddine 