“Do something useful instead of waging a new Crusade.”
The world, he added in his latest blog posting, wants to live in peace. “Muslim leaders and the Muftis must tell the young that the Crusades against the west was over 700 years ago.”
He was commenting on the world witnessing a phenomenon, not seen before, at least not on the same scale that’s unfolding by the day. “Every other day in many countries, innocent men, women and children are dying at the hands of suicide bombers.”
He called on Muslim political and religious leaders to take ownership of the “growing madness” spreading around the world. “Instead of just saying that Islam was against extremism and the taking of life, why not seriously examine how young Muslims are being educated?”
He cited the right wing Islamist groups in the country as a case in point. “If you do not say nice things about Zakir Naik, then you are anti-Islam.”
The communications Minister has also joined in the chorus and was keen to immediately start investigations. “For having an opinion on Zakir Naik?”
Zaid wants to know since when an individual, whether Zakir Naik or Abdul Hadi Awang, became synonymous with Islam. “If a Muslim can’t tell the difference then Islam is definitely under attack; but by the Muslims themselves.”
The Prime Minister and the Mufti of Selangor, he noted, also said there are enemies of Islam out there. “None of them dare to name the enemies.”
He suspects that they are dying to name the Jews, Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Hindus, Christians, Donald Trump, Coca Cola, music, movies, Pokemon games, card games, gambling and hundreds of other worldly stuff. “In other words, they are at war with almost everything and everyone else not looking like them.”
He reminded that some of these leaders even hint at the existence of an international conspiracy, perhaps funded by the CIA, to make Islam look bad.
Whenever the media shows graphic pictures of the resulting carnage, Muslim leaders — both religious and political — are quick to say that Islam does not condone such actions, pointed out Zaid.
It’s not enough to say that Islam is this and that because these suicide bombers are also doing it for Islam, he added. “These young suicide bombers are willing to kill themselves because they were told their reward in the Afterlife was too good to refuse.”
He stressed that the suicide bombers are also killing innocent civilians because they believe that God commands them to do so.
Read the rest of Zaid’s blog here