Are Muslims Safe In America?

Are Muslims Safe In America?


The Shield
In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Most Merciful
Vol. 1, No. 1



Everywhere in the world to day,
Muslims are under fire. If we are
not being physically fought against,
we are being fought ideologically. All it
takes for the average Muslim to realize
this is to read the local newspaper or
read the news on the internet or watch
the the news on TV, and you get the
feeling internationally that Islam (Deen/
Way of Life) and Muslims are under attack.
Every day we hear or read that
Muslims in Iraq are being killed, but this
is not the only place. Muslims are being
killed in the Philippines, China, India,
Chechnya, Sudan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and many
other places under the justification that
these are the “terrorist” or “militants”
that want to harm the so-called free
world which in reality is ran by the
Western powers. Calling people terrorist
who are fighting their oppressors or
demanding their right to live as human
beings is ludicrous.

If non-Muslims (kuffar) and the
so-called Muslims rulers who are the
real enemies of Islam are not physically
killing or bombing Muslims,
they are tormenting and torturing
them. For example, in Uzbekistan,
Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, and many other
parts of the Muslim world, Muslims
are put in prisons by unjust tyrants
who inflict pain, rape, burn, beat and
use other forms of torture.
If this is not enough for the Muslims
in America and the West to feel
that Muslims are under attack then they
need to look at their own condition and
the way they are being treated under
Western rule. If you don’t think this is
the case, try taking a trip on the airlines,
or getting an unrestricted passport.
Muslims are being fired from their jobs,
or not being hired, and even locked up
just because they are Muslims.
If a Muslim or anyone for that matter
who donates money to help improve
the conditions of Muslims or find it
reprehensible for the unjustified attacks
by the Israelis on Palestinians, they are
arrested or their tenure in America revoked
or placed on a “watch” list and
harassed if they speak out against the
wrong done to Muslims. Donated funds
are seized illegally by the government,
and in some cases the one in charge of
such funds become suspect of aiding
terrorist or of being a terrorist.

Muslims in the West have another
battle to fight, which is ideological in
nature. We have to confront attempts
to secularize our Deen (Way of Life)
in an effort to make it a weak religion
which they want us to ritualize with no
relevance as being a complete way of
life.
They do not want Muslims to
become aware that Islam is a complete
system with a political, economic, educational,
and social system that does not
exclude worship of the Creator as in a
secularize system such as the so-called
democratic system as practiced in the
Western world.

Although this attack is ideological,
it nonetheless is a battle that Muslims
must endure. We endure the pain of
knowing in our hearts that Islam is a solution
for the Western societies while at
the same time we listen to the rhetoric of
their politicians, religious leaders, educators
and others who espouse secularization
as a superior way of life.
The news media has contributed to
demonizing Islam and Muslims so that
Muslims are the prime suspects for terrorism.
Even when Muslims have come out
and said that they are “peaceful people”
who mean no harm to Americans, they
are still targeted, stopped and denied
the right to fly or receive funding. As
one military official said, “the gloves have
come off” in their treatment of Muslims.
Al-Hamdulillah, this has only pushed us
to reconsider our realities all around the
world, causing us turn more towards Allah
as our only Protector.

Today we see the real terrorist
and enemy to our Ummah, and this is
a good thing. If someone breaks into a
man’s home and attempts to harm his
family, his natural reaction is to fight
to his death. After this he takes actions
which will provide security for himself
and his family, Insha-Allah. He may buy
a gun, install a security system, or move
to a different neighborhood. But he certainly
would not wait for the same thing
to happen again. He would not allow
anyone to tell him that he should just
pray or ask the criminals of the world
not to do it again.
The question that we should ask
ourselves as Muslims is: “What kind
of an Ummah or Muslims waits to be
slaughtered or taken from their homes
in the middle of the night to be tortured,
imprisoned or killed?
What kind of a nation would not
take steps to secure its children and
women from the shock, horror, or grief
potentially waiting for it?” These are
the kind of questions the Ummah has itself,
because this is the stark reality of
our position in the West as well as in
other parts of the Muslim world.
We have no security or peace
of mind because we have no State to
protect us. We have no Muslim army
to fight those who attack us with far
more sophisticated weaponry. We have
no State to take care of our affairs, and
that is why a righteous Imam is such
an important aspect of our security, for
Prophet Muhammad (saaw) said:

“He who obeys me, obeys Allah,
and he who disobeys me, disobeys
Allah. He who obeys the chief, obeys
me, and he who disobeys the chief,
disobeys me. The Imam is like a
shield for whose safety the Muslims
should fight and where they should
seek protection. If the Imam orders
people with righteousness and rules
justly, then he will be rewarded for
that, and if he does the opposite, he
will be responsible for that.”
Narrated by Abu Huraira.

As Muslims, will we not take actions
that any sensible Ummah should
take to protect itself and its ideology
from the wolves who sometimes appear
in sheep’s’ clothing to tell us that voting
in a democratic society is the solution.
Will we not put all of our efforts and
resources into the cause and call for the
Islamic State which is the only solution
for our security, protection and problems.
What kind of an Ummah or Muslims waits to be
slaughtered or taken from their homes in the middle
of the night to be tortured, imprisoned or killed?
What kind of a nation would not
take steps to secure its children and
women from the shock, horror, or grief
potentially waiting for it?” These are
the kind of questions the Ummah has itself,
because this is the stark reality of
our position in the West as well as in
other parts of the Muslim world.
We have no security or peace
of mind because we have no State to
protect us. We have no Muslim army
to fight those who attack us with far
more sophisticated weaponry. We have
no State to take care of our affairs, and
that is why a righteous Imam is such
an important aspect of our security, for
Prophet Muhammad (saaw) said:

“He who obeys me, obeys Allah,
and he who disobeys me, disobeys
Allah. He who obeys the chief, obeys
me, and he who disobeys the chief,
disobeys me. The Imam is like a
shield for whose safety the Muslims
should fight and where they should
seek protection. If the Imam orders
people with righteousness and rules
justly, then he will be rewarded for
that, and if he does the opposite, he
will be responsible for that.”Narrated by Abu Huraira.

As Muslims, will we not take actions
that any sensible Ummah should
take to protect itself and its ideology
from the wolves who sometimes appear
in sheep’s’ clothing to tell us that voting
in a democratic society is the solution.
Will we not put all of our efforts and
resources into the cause and call for the
Islamic State which is the only solution
for our security, protection and problems.