Can it be left unchecked??? Does it really exist???
Has Charlie Hebdo and Co. expressing THE Peak of Civilization OR Worst tide of Human Values?
As a reaction to the Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo’s office on 7th January, 2015; the paper again published blasphemous images of our beloved Prophet (S.A.W.) on 14th
January, 2015 in response to all of this today we see anger, protests
and opposition against this in the whole Muslim world. Charlie Hebdo did
this in the name of freedom of speech and we see alot of people
supporting this thinking. However, living in such a modern age, I think
everyone would question rationale and logic behind this irresponsible and disrespectful freedom of speech.
The first thing came in my mind after knowing all this was the Hadith of Prophet (S.A.W.) that “None of you becomes a believer
until I am dearer to him than his children, his parents and all
mankind.” (as reported by Bukhari and Muslim) Some versions add: “his
life, his wealth and his family”. (Ref#1)
What would be our reaction if someone makes such cartoons of our father, mother
or any other loved one? Obviously most of us will react and try to stop
the one doing this and perhaps will keep such offender at arms length
for the whole life… This is not the first time Charlie Hebdo did this
thing; every now and then, they try to test our nerves by provoking us.
But the question is Why do we only wake up on the provocation,
what are we doing in between? How can we as Muslims ever forget this
insult without getting all this to a final conclusion? If it’s not taken
to justice and fixed for good; it will raise its head every now and
then and may well be case of horrific clash of civilizations…
Can “Freedom of Speech” be left unrestrained???
This kind of “Freedom of Speech” should really be rephrased as “Freedom of Hate” because this does not mean anything except spreading uneasiness among others. Knowingly that Prophet (S.A.W) is such a Noble role model for Muslims;
what sanity is this to target the emotions of such a huge population of
the world? What sort of Freedom is this which allows you to provoke
about 25% of the world’s population whenever you want?
Everything in the World be it the working of this Universe, evolving
human breed, any good social system, any machinery or the inter-relation
of all these elements; all have immense discipline and certain
boundaries attached to them. We have also seen the destructive results
of undue interference in these systems.
Freedom of speech/expression; like any other thing in the world
society; have limitations. I strongly believe that our words and
actions in world society must not provoke hate towards certain
communities. How can you hurt someone’s sacred emotions in the name of
this freedom? Is this what we have achieved in the long journey of
mankind???
Does it really exist?
“Freedom for the Powerful” is another good alternative name I would suggest for such Freedom of Speech. We see captivated lands of Kashmir and Palestine
and the condition of UN resolutions on these issues. The powerful
countries use their powers to stop anything going in favor of these
issues. Why these big guns can not allow (and support) these captivated
people to express and achieve their desires of freedom?
We saw the deleted post of Hamza Ali Abbasi from facebook on this
Issue and then the stream of debate on that post related to Freedom of
Expression. Hamza bro, you most rightly exposed Gaps in facebook and
their dual standards. Bravo!
And
honestly, true freedom of speech does not exist today. It’s just a
fashion (or tool) used by the liberals/powerful to pave their interests.
And Yes…Blood also has Class Difference!
More than 40 head of states visited France to show their solidarity
with French people. Worthy to mention this was the biggest million march
in the history of France
carrying people from all religions and nationalities. However, it’s an
utmost irony that these people did not reacted to even half an extent
when there were sabotage attacks in Pakistan targeting our religious and
national trademarks, Malaysian plane disappearance/crash, when Freedom
flotilla got attacked OR when Muslims were massacred in India and
Myanmar.
So, what is the difference between French blood and others? This is a
big shame for this so called developed and civilized world. You
gathered in Unity with France? Who will stand in Unity for the halted
emotions of 1.6 Billion Muslims? Why you kept quiet when blasphemous
images were first published, why this satirical paper was not
regularized at that time? Why it can not be held accountable now???
Accountability for Charlie Hebdo; responsibility of Pakistani Media…
Like many other such sabotages (like Ajmal Kassab drama in India),
the Charlie Hebdo attacks were also questioned as false Flag operations
to gain greater objectives out of it; even from the BBC(This BBC video has been removed due to a breach of the Terms of Use, Kiya Smjhay???)…Unfortunately,
our media did not raise its voice duly and did not work on probability
of a false flag operation. We can show programs with utmost research and
re-enactment, why can not we air programs on these incidents which take
dignity of Muslim world at stake?
Also our media can carry out such programs in which the true image of
Islam is depicted. The need to time is to clarify the misconceptions
about Islam in the minds of people specially relating to the Western world
who think Islam is something like ISIS and TTP. Realize your duty in
these times; this will be a great Jihad against the hypocritical media
around the world trying to corner out Muslims.
Missing Muslim leadership
Many of the Muslim head of states condemned Charlie Hebdo attacks and
Blasphemous images thereafter, but we felt real lack of unity among
Muslims leadership. This is a real pity sight to see Muslims in such a
weak state. Today, another Noor-ud-din Zangi (a dignified Muslim Hero
who safeguarded Roza-e-Rasool,S.A.W. in 557 Hijri; Ref#2) is awaited to stand stern against this blasphemy and attack on beloved prophet (S.A.W.)
Future of this Freedom!
After too much of freedom exercise
on Social media, we see countries making laws to regularize the mouth
of expression. If the social media can be controlled by governments then
why not such hated papers? We are most certainly not heading in right
direction. This difference of thought on blasphemy may well erupt on an
un-controllable scale. Like explained above, there must be some
boundaries on Freedom of Expression/speech. Morality needs to be placed
well above all Freedoms. Governments of such newspapers must review
what’s happening in their countries in the name of Freedom of Speech.
All such is actually resulting in Freedom to spread Hate and creating mis-understanding between various faiths…
To all supporters of Charlie Hebdo and Co:
“You stood as “I am Charlie” after Paris attacks, when will you realize
human emotions of Muslims related to their beloved prophet (S.A.W.) and
stand by them as “I am Human???”
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