Vision:

By Zoheir Salem*

Prohibition of minarets

There is nothing wrong ... They are tyros in pluralism

Yes, there is nothing wrong, and we have to smile and be patient, and our people should be  careful and cautious not to learn from them, and church towers in our mornings will continue to ring freely and fluently as they had been since Ibn Al_jarrah has set his foot in the land of the Sham, or Amr ibn al-Aas the land of Egypt, or since ibn al-Khattab has withdrawn from the Church of the Resurrection to pray aside, so its case would not be one day in the hands of a (common people) who will be pleased to say: our mosque, it is here where Omer has prayed…!

We are referring to these signals to remind those who lecture us day and night with admiration of the dazzled by others culture and rules of life, it is a recent culture, and non-rooted plantings, we must be patient and smile, what the folk are living is outside the format of their civilization history, and the components of their collective minds.

When we go back to the history of ideas, we will find that the folk did not officially get rid of the law that distinguishes between black and white human beings, in the United States , but in the second half of the twentieth century, since less than half a century!!  It is an idea and a principle of a millennium and half years old in our civilization. Since a millennium and a half we remember Abu thar has been told that (you are a person with ignorance) because he said to his fellow man: "O son of the black woman ...

 When we talk about men and women ... We know that the folk since recent centuries only were debating whether women have human spirit or only a body!! Or perhaps have a demonic spirit who misleads men?!! The answer to them of the ecumenical was the second option. Do not be confused as you know that the French Revolution of the three beautiful slogans had confirmed that all men - not women - are born equal, while the principle of our social existence since millennium and a half was: (women are the sisters of men).

 Let us remember when we pass by the freedom of belief, opinion and expressing that the folk are tyros of the Inquisitions, which affected their opposites in religion of Muslims, Jews, and opposites in doctrine or in the opinion of Christians. And that they are tyros of Nazism, Fascism and Stalinism also... And let us mention that the Vatican did not abolish the ban on the black list of books only in the sixties of the twentieth century. While the mosques in Basra and Baghdad , were witnessing hot debates among Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sabians, and Dualism!! Our cultural libraries are still reserving the blasphemy of Ibn Rwandan, and abuses of Abu Nawas.

perhaps the most important of all these things, that after they omitted the religion from their life, they announced (and underline: announced) that there is no discriminate between people according to their religions and beliefs, the religion lost its value in their lives and it is never mentioned but in field of intolerance, which is so far from it. Do not forget that Christ  arose from us, and we have built our civilization on the principle of what Qur’an says: (and We have honored the sons of Adam), we did this as we were building a civilization and societies on the base of religion itself; so the Jews find in the  Document of Medina their statues and place in the political, social and economic life. Then Omer gives Guardianship to the Christians of Jerusalem; to: them, their wives, children, beliefs, churches and crosses, and nobody impairs them. 

We do not claim that everything in our intellectual and cultural history was perfect, at the level of implementation, at least. We believe that humanity or human civilization has gained a lot of positive developments in terms of perceptions, and in terms of implementations and organizations, at the hands of these folk as well, but we assure as we are observing the globalized arena in its respective fields of military, political, cultural and economical that the  cultural background of our societies, with all its illiteracy and underdevelopment have more ability to assimilate the reality’s data with its material and moral dimensions, deeper in distinction, and better in bearing and responding to the abuse and overlooking its owners ...

 the best of what the defenders of the closed attitude of the Swiss people of the minarets has come with is that; it is a reaction to certain acts of individual or groups which are, , rightly or falsely, considered as Islamic. And if it is true, then look how the Islamic peoples, in total, are responding to the acts of the European countries (Christian), which mete the worst suffering out to these peoples since the nineteenth century!

 How would the Swiss respond to us, if we were the people who grabbed part of their land, despite their noses, to make it a state for Jews?! How would they look at us if we distributed them to the camps, as they did with our families in Palestine ? How would they respond to us if we killed and displaced one of their people as they have killed and displaced millions of our people in Iraq of men, women, and children?! Or if we have destroyed their civilization, and destroyed their history of glory as the glory history of Baghdad ?!
 
 An objective study of the negative reactions made by the institutions, officials and individuals on both sides of the struggled civilizations since 9/11, would give us a real assessment of the civilization maturity at the level of human rights, and we emphasize that careful and objective extrapolation would be outweighing, unprecedentedly, to the civilization of comb teeth, to the multiple human existence (they have rights, and obligations as ours ...)

If a group of closed minded, or fool people in our country presented such a referendum on the sounds of the church bells, or towers, in Cairo, Damascus, Amman, or Baghdad, they would have found a collective attitude telling them in one voice: The existence of human, its religion, mind, honor, and property and are above the will of majority or minority..

Should we wait after this day the results of a referendum on a new Holocaust to take place against Muslims? Do not despair, the alarm bell rings powerfully, unfortunately, in a world its bells have got silent.

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*Director of The Arab Orient Center

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zuhair@asharqalarabi.org.uk