Islamic Ulema's struggle against Internet, which critics, especially a handful of ex-Muslims, have been using to open the minds of Muslim youth to the truth of Islam so as to unfurl a silent revolution that would spell death of Islam and Muhammad.
[Extremism is fire, which thrives on the blows of its opponents. And an ideology of hatred always comes to a natural death sooner or later.]
It’s completely ridiculous of a person to think that he stands high in the eyes of a Muslim youth, whereas he/she is just a puppet based on his/her emotional propaganda of religious beliefs. Today’s Muslim youth is not as naive as it was before; media is a medium to develop his/her knowledge, but unfortunately the man himself wasn’t. A big farewell to this Muslim man, who shall soon hide from his own shadows.
Ex-Muslims are taking things to a personal level of educating their fellow ‘believers’ about what Islam truly is. Anyone, who tries to awaken the Muslim youth from the hypnosis that they are in fact parroting verses of the Koran [without ever understanding what it actually says, but rather blindly believing the Ulema who twist and turn the meanings of these verses to suit their whiffed intellectuals], will be ridiculed and a death fatwa will become obligatory. The Ulema these days are doing their desperate best by bringing the confidence and self-beliefs back in the Muslim youth by reminding them of the glorious past of Islam. They march to the streets in large numbers to protest against anything that may make the Muslim youth aware of Islam's truth. The latest being the Facebook and Youtube fiasco!
In social networking sites, one does have the freedom to express his/her mind! With new tools [information] easily available, one can inform others about the naked truths with facts, which may unfurl a silent revolution to change their thoughts. People call it a cult.
I think we need to make a new cult of ‘information war’ to bring down those, who oppose naked truths—a “cult” that always uses lenses, fogged with ‘clear bitter truths’ about this Islamic religious ideology, to view the world as it exists today!
Well, in politics and policies, there is no absolutes: no absolute to freedom, no absolute to death. Until and unless the very mindset of the very people change, and they stop celebrating religious fascism and separatism in the name of religion, caste, ethnicity or whatever, preached and taught by the Islamic Ulema—men like Ali Sina, M. A. Khan, Abul Kasem, Greet Wilders, Dr. Walid Pares, Ibn Warraq, Mohammad Asghar, Syed Kamran Mirza, and Amil Imani et al. will always rise and preach confusion, plant seeds of rebellion, in all sections in the Islamic society via the INTERNET.
Why these few (Islamic Ignorant) men do such a thing? All we can hope is people like them [should and will] keep the bastion of TRUTH about religion and its logic standing and will in essence be the ever-burning fire that helps rejuvenate millions of phoenixes but also burns false prophets! Muhammad will truly be dead the day Muslims take him out of their minds and don’t even remember his name, much less his teachings! Islamic awareness is the first footsteps in that direction!
Internet Censorship
 Pakistani women, affiliated with a religious party, rally against the Facebook page "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day". A Paki- stan court ordered the government to block the popular social networking site, because of the controversial page that encour- aged users to post images of Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo) |
The furor over blocking numerous websites last week by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority on the instructions of the Lahore High Court refuses to die down and for good reason, too! At least 800 web pages and URLs have so far been blocked for Pakistan’s Internet users in an effort to restrict access to material considered blasphemous. The number may grow. However, apart from the Facebook page that hosted the 'everybody draw Muhammad day', which has now been removed, PTA has given no explanations as to “what exactly this objectionable material is?”
There are a number of points to ponder. First, the LHC order referred to the caricatures’ site. On whose authority has access to other sites been restricted? The PTA may be guilty of overstepping its authority by extending the scope of the court’s order to apply the directives to websites of its own choosing. Second, given the other issues confronting, there is the possibility that ‘blasphemy’ is being used to cover up attempts to suppress criticism on Blogs. Sites such as Facebook and YouTube have become a prominent tool for radical activism and criticism of religion. Third, blocking these sites constitutes outright censorship and a serious transgression of the individual’s right to access information of his/her choice on the Internet.
Islam cannot police the world! By blocking websites achieves nothing but only invites derision from the global community, besides encouraging mischievous elements to undertake similarly offensive exercises in order to provoke a reaction. In shutting off access to these sites is denying people access to information; interestingly, one of the blocked pages is a Wikipedia discussion on the freedom of speech versus blasphemy. Lastly, bans like this simply do not work.
“The only way to comprehensively control access to sections of the Internet is to stop Internet facilities altogether,” told an Ulema on local television. A number of ways to circumvent the blocked material are being communicated to Internet users, who are thus able to access websites of their choice. It must be made to respect the rights to information and restore the blocked websites immediately, leaving Internet users to decide for themselves what is or is not offensive to them?
It is sad to see that the instance of bringing a “radical change of such learning” is treated/thought as only a waste of time of Western conspiracy theories. The Ulema jump the gun and, with their sling-shot, jabs at Internet—a medium, which makes it hard to hold back any knowledge! The biggest problem with the Islamic Ulema is that they want no roles in social uplifts of its people, but rather to keep the Islamic mindset on razors edge. Those, who have done nothing, are the loudest ones!
There will always be Islamic extremists, who will turn violent and shun a measured response to crass exercises such as the drawing event. But the answer should not be resorting to practices that drag the society further back into the dark ages of Islam!
