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ONE GOOD MAN March, 2010
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke 1729-1797.
Yesterday Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a former Pakistani lawmaker and a leading scholar of Islam made a stand. He issued a Fatwa declaring the ungodliness of the violent extremism perpetrated by those who claim to be Muslim, or as some others would readily say - use Islam as an excuse to create mass murder and the violent suppression of their own people.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has made a stand.
One good man among many - with the many at last, after long years in the wilderness not daring to speak, now finding a voice - and that voice beginning to be raised, beginning to be heard over the screams of hatred and blood of those who previously claimed to speak for Islam.
For years the Muslim community in the UK have felt themselves disempowered - caught between a culture that seemed to alienate them because of the deeds of others, and a growing culture of hatred that claimed to speak for them ... but didn't. And now, after so long, after so much anguish and harm and lost lives, the voice of reason is starting at last to shine through. All it takes is one light to shine in the deepest night for this night to be dispelled - and throughout the world it is indeed time to dispel the dark night created by the violent extremists infamous for their inhumanity. It is a night in which the demons created and in which the demons prowl to perpetuate the hell of their own making. And where one light does shine to dispel the night, so others will follow to show there is a valid and valuable alternative to the darkness and demonic depths so screamed about by the preachers of hate.
At last.
Now we can all start to build a better world - together.
Does anyone seriously believe the Taliban want to build a better world? Ask their victims in their own land and also ask those affected by the heroin trade whose funds go the weaponisation of the Taliban and other violent extremists. Does anyone seriously believe Al-Qaeda want to build a better world? By continuously committing mass murder? It's time we turned away from the horrors of the past to create a better world - together. It is time we put a stop to children being brainwashed into being the suicide bomb generation. It is time we developed the stability so required for business and social development.
It is time we reached forward for what we wanted to achieve - together.
The Muslim community in the UK have found their voice and it is the voice of reason, just as we who are here are reasonable people. And between reasonable people there is much common ground. We all want the same things. We have more similarities than differences and we each have our extremists to contend with. The tide is turning yet with still a long way to go. Yet from now on, where ever we go we will go together.
If this can happen in the fractured society of the UK, it can happen anywhere ... and it needs to.
Regards
JS
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