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Please don't burn our Holy book
-letter
According to news reports, the Non-denominational
church in Gainesville Florida, USA plans to host an
"International Burn a QURAN Day " on 9th anniversary of 9/11,
from 6 to 9pm, at church. The news can be read and viewed here.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/29/florida.burn.quran.day/index.html
We request the planners
not to indulge in such a heinous act., Otherwise how can the
Christians hope to solicit the goodwill of Muslims. I hope
sanity will prevail and misguided individuals will not be
allowed to put the much needed interfaith good relationship at
stake.
--by Zeenat Khan, Islamabad, 31 Aug 10.
Comment 1
God forbid if this
happens, my question to Obama Administration will be, 'is this
what democracy means and allows to happen in the United States
of America'? Nothing could be more heinous than allowing
desecration of the Quran, 'holy book' of over one billion
Muslims. -- by Shah Karez Chitral, 01 Sep
10
Comment 2
With reference to the letter I would like to
point something into light. Up till now the movement of western
radicals has been adverse brewing affect on Muslims. The act of
blasphemous caricaturist, sacrilegious move to ‘To draw
Muhammad’ competition and now ‘burning Quran’ is another heinous
act to humiliate Muslims ridiculing their Holy book, Great
Prophet and even their faith. I think it is one in the sequence
of pre-planned lobby to further disfigure Muslims dwindling
image to serve their interest easily like to revert the move to
build Mosque (Islamic Centre) in USA by branding Muslims as
terrorists and Islam a religion of ………….?
Last backlashes of these heinous acts have proved that we are
emotionally being tortured easily and as a result we destroy our
own property indiscriminately whether it is public or private
and even lose many lives in last episodes. In this zero-sum game
we are losing but they have been gaining. We should instead of
destroying our own property launch such a movement to bring all
Islamic school of thoughts under one umbrella of Islam,
configuring minor differences to have a counter lobbying force
against this media war via media platform by intellectuals and
religious scholars.
The Bush Administration created perception of Islamo-phobia,
provided space for western radicals a chance to perpetuate
yawning gap between Muslims and the world branding all Muslims
terrorists after 9/11.
This demeaning scenario demands heartfelt response from Obama
Administration, Inter-Faith Harmony activists and Human Rights
champions to assuage increasing assault on Muslims faith and
feelings and prove democracy and pluralism as an agent of
civilized nations. -- by Alhaj Muhammad
Khan, Charun Chitral, 02 Sep 10
Comment
3
The point to be noted here is that while the
church is planning 'burn a Quran day', the American Muslim
councils are planning 'Share a Quran' dinners and distributing
100,000 copies of the Quran among heads of states and other
people. Now this is what I call a positive way to react. If we ,
in return start burning the Bible or start harming Christians it
would only give them more reasons to make their case stronger ,
trying to prove we worship the devil. Even in the Quran Allah
swt says that wrongdoings should be removed by good deeds. I
think the Muslims all over the world should follow suit to prove
that Islam actually is a religion of peace and not destruction.
--by Zeenat Khan, Islamabad, 03 Sep 10.
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