Fariq Naik – Unfair Labels Given the Media to Muslims

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			According to the Webster
Dictionary, fundamentalism was
		

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			first used to describe a group of
American protesting Christians who
		

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			protested against the church, the
Christian church, it believed that
		

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			message the Bible is on call. But
these American protests and
		

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			questions the protesters and they
said that not only the Bible is
		

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			the message from God, but every
word, every letter, the Bible is
		

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			the Word of God. If anyone can
prove that every word, every
		

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			letter of the Bible is the Word of
God, then this moment is a good
		

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			movement. Whereas on the other
hand, if anyone can prove that
		

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			each and every word, every letter
of the Bible is not the word of
		

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			God, then the movement is not a
good movement.
		

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			According to Oxford Dictionary,
fundamentalist is a person who
		

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			strictly adheres to the ancient
doctrines of any religion. And the
		

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			revised edition of the Oxford
Dictionary. Fundamentalists is a
		

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			person who strictly adheres to the
ancient doctrines of any religion,
		

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			especially Islam.
		

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			This word, especially Islam has
been added in the revised edition
		

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			of the Oxford Dictionary. The
moment you hear the word
		

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			fundamentalist, you start to go
for Muslim, you starting off a
		

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			terrorist, you start think of an
extremist. And many of the Muslims
		

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			are apologetic. They say no, no,
no, I'm not an extremist. I tell
		

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			the people I am an extremist. I'm
extremely chi, I'm extremely
		

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			merciful. I'm extremely loving.
I'm extremely honest, I'm
		

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			extremely just what's wrong and be
an extremist? Why are we
		

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			apologetic? What's wrong with
being extremely kind, extremely
		

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			honest, extremely, just extremely
loving?
		

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			Allah Subhan. Allah says in surah
baqarah chapter two, verse two 208
		

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			Oh, the Hello facility kapha,
enter into a slump wholeheartedly,
		

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			you can't say partly well, to
benefit me, I'll be just and might
		

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			not benefit me, I will not be
just.
		

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			And the media says that Muslims
are terrorists, what is the
		

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			meaning of the word terrorist?
Tell us by definition means a
		

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			person who causes terror.
		

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			And many times, two different
labels are given to the same
		

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			person for the same activity,
about 60 to 70 years back, before
		

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			India gain its freedom. There were
people who were fighting for the
		

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			freedom of the country. And these
people by the British government,
		

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			they will call us terrorists.
Whereas the same people by the
		

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			common Indians, they were called
as freedom fighters, as patriots,
		

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			same people, same activity, but to
the labels.
		

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			If you agree with the view of the
British government, that the
		

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			British has had the right to rule
over India, then you would call
		

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			these people as terrorist. Whereas
if you agree with the view of the
		

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			common Indians, that the
Britishers had come to the trade
		

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			and there are no right to rule
over us, then you would call these
		

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			people as freedom fighters as
patriots, same people, same
		

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			activity, but two different
labels. And you have several such
		

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			examples. We had the example of
the American Revolution that took
		

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			place in 1775.
		

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			George Washington, he was called
as status number one. Later on,
		

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			when America gets his freedom,
George Washington has made the
		

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			president of USA imagine
terrorists number one, he's made
		

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			the president of USA
		

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			we have several such examples. We
had the example of Nelson Mandela,
		

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			when South Africa was ruled by the
white apartheid government, Nelson
		

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			Mandela was imprisoned in Robben
islands for more than 25 years.
		

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			And Nelson Mandela by the white
apartheid government was color
		

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			status number one.
		

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			Later on, when the white apartheid
government is thrown out, and
		

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			South Africa gets its freedom,
Nelson Mandela, he is free and he
		

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			gets a Nobel Prize for Peace.
Imagine that is number one gets
		

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			Nobel Prize for Peace.
		

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			It was not that he was bad. Then
he became good for the same
		

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			activity for which he was called
as terrorists he gets a Nobel
		

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			Prize for Peace. So here we
realize the media it is very
		

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			powerful. It can turn black into
white, white into black hero into
		

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			villain villain to hero