Stop Being Predictable
I am not anti-Islam although sometimes I can’t help myself. After all, I have lived in countries with large Muslim populations. I have celebrated Eid and even followed Ramadan fasts (not intentionally at times, since there’s nothing much you can do when all the dukas and restaurants are closed).
If I could offer Muslims one piece of advice it is this: stop being predictable.
Case in point: The explosion at the Shrine of the Two Imams.
Everyone understands that al-Zarqawi and his swine are trying to start a civil war. Why? Because he is evil and Evil thrives on chaos. He is also a Sunni who views Shi’a as no better than Jews or Americans.
So what happens afterward? Retaliation against the Sunni minority. So Zarqawi thrives on chaos, instigates it, and then Shi’a and Sunni provide him with more.
Predictable.
Meanwhile another evil force on the Shi’a side – the president of Iran – blames the Americans and Jews for the chaos. Also predictable. Of course he blames everything bad on the Jews and Americans because he is nuts. He probably blames his bad body odor on Americans and Jews too.
Ditto with the cartoon flap. Muslims need to start thinking about what they do when things go wrong and do something else. Why?
Because that’s what adults do. Grown ups think before they react. They are imbued with freewill and act accordingly. They are not mindless automatons prone to chanting whatever they are told to chant, or reacting in the way they are accustomed to react: with violence.
Do you want Islam to be a truly global religion? Then start acting like one. You don’t see Catholics rampaging in the streets when Christians are killed in Nigeria. You don’t see Baptists running amok in the American South over the recent burning of their churches in Alabama and Mississippi. Buddhists in Thailand didn’t burn mosques when the Taliban blew up the Buddhist Statues in Banya. Yes, the Hindu’s got their loinclothes in a twist over Ayodha, but they need to grow up too.
Act like adults damn it! Take responsibility for your own failures. By blaming everyone else for your problems you make yourselves out to be like little children – powerless over your destinies. Worse, you then become unable to solve your own problems, leaving you in the spiral of failure that you are on.
Submission is the core belief of your religion: it is submission to the will of God - not to the vagaries of the will of Men. Do you believe that God blew up that shrine, or printed those cartoons? Of course not. So why do you allow the people who wish to destroy you to have power over you?
Just stop. Stop being predictable.
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