The Serene Wounds.

[Mostafa]

       

Dear all, peace be with you.

 

At its inception, the media is meant to express a vivid reflection of our daily life pursuits.

 

Supposedly, it discusses and analyzes what occurs on a daily basis.

 

One of the most constant controversies in the western media is the deliberate negative portrayal of Muslims.

 

When it comes to Muslims and the media, you often are confronted with a quite stereotypical depiction.

 

Everyday, I see the same biased headlines.

 

Jihadists committed terrorist acts, Moslems, which is a derogatory spelling by the way, Moslems have engaged in terrorist acts, etc etc.

 

As a result, a moderately practicing Muslim is very frustrated because of this deliberate negative portrayal.

 

It’s quite enough for a Muslim girl who wears Hijab to prejudicially  be labeled as extremist, suspicious and inexcusably mistrusted.

 

       What do you expect  the newsman of CNN to tell you about Muslims?

 

Do you think he has  any positive thing to tell?

 

Once upon a time, someone  sent me an E-Mail  with a reference to an article on the Daily Mail press.

 

I innocently followed the link and it instantly promted  an article which talks about Islamic law permitting for the man to have intercourse with the deadbody of his wife.

 

Of course, I was taken aback.

 

I was enormously appalled and disgusted.

 

I wrote him back and I unambiguously  expressed my stridently deep offense because of the disgustingly  filthy article he sent.

 

  In spite of the foul which this article contained, but this generally signifies a quite negative delineation of what may some disinformed people have about Islam and particularly in the western media.

In addition to that, Muslims are often subjected to accusatory sentiments.

 

Whenever a terrorist act or a bombing incident occurs, the media flees to accuse Muslims out of clear prejudice.

 

   This prejudgement is essentially based on perfect unenlightenment and without establishing decisive evidence.

 

This repetition was never spontaneous, it’s constantly deliberate.

 

Muslims are permanently expatriated from the mass western media.

 

They are not allowed to defend themselves or to refute the wicked misconceptions which are viciously promoted about them.

 

I am predominantly  exasperated when I hear this oblivious newsman describing the debased cult of Isis as the Islamic State.

 

Excuse me sir, where did you get this fraud entitlement from?

 

I as a Muslim, I never recognized this debased cult as an Islamic State.

 

It’s neither me nor any Muslim that I know have recognized this debased cult.      

 

    It’s not more than a merely self-declared State.

 

  It’s actually a hostile military dynasty of radical self-declared counterfeit Islamists.

 

  It absolutely has nothing to do with orthodox Islamists.

 

   It desires to appallingly  dominate the whole region with its quite corrupted misapprehension of Islamic Shariah.

 

It’s not even a Caliphate because it doesn’t have the public recognition of Muslims.

 

If you thoroughly examine the textbooks of Islamic Shariah, you will properly be edified about that.

 

   It’s quite fraudulent and it doesn’t sustain a territorial jurisdiction upon us.

 

Another instance of how Islam has deliberately been  misinterpreted in the mass American media is when a controversially self-declared cleric or whatever talks about Islamic law which allows men to beat their wives.

 

I just want to know where did they get this psychopathy from?

 

This is a repeatedly self-proclaimed scholarship but it doesn’t attain the minimum endorsement  of apposite erudition.  

 

The media tends to often hyperbolize controversial characters to gravely escalate the disposal of Islamophobia.

 

So for instance, when this distasteful pastor Terry Jones determined to burn Korans out of desecration and intense detest on the anniversary of September eleventh couple of years ago, he was sequentially interviewed by multiple televisions.

 

I saw couple of his interviews on CNN, let alone other major broadcasting networks.

 

    I am wondering though;

 

Why this racist and radical religious bigot had to repeatedly be interviewed?

 

Why he hadn’t just been utterly dismissed?

 

It seems to me that  media people were quite obsessed with his offensive bigotry and his radical intolerance.

 

Media people are constantly obsessed with repellant  and opprobrious contents.

 

  What does make a regular  headline about us in a western press?

 

A bombing incident or a preposterously infamous celebrity attacking us.

 

But a positive role-model for Muslims doesn’t make the top stories of major western newspapers.

 

I am wondering why?

 

Why a disdainful 13 minutes movie trailer about prophet Muhammad was constantly advertised in the mass media propagation whilst a gracious documentary about the same subject was utterly dismissed?

 

    What those people are attempting to achieve?

 

What those people want to show you?

 

They basically want those radicals such as Terry Jones, Robert Spencer, Osama Bin Laden or Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini  to often appear on television.

 

They will never allow adequate Muslim scholars to talk about Islam.

 

They only allow those precipitously insane individuals to often appear.

 

They are either uneducated and radical Muslims or they are radical right-wing individuals who are fond of denouncing Islam out of detest and for secular gains.

 

So neither, it’s radical anyway.

 

They won’t allow a Muslim scholar or a neutral  non-Muslim figure to speak.

 

Well, it’s the war then.

 

Yes, it’s a deliberately perpetrated  mental combat.

 

They perpetually maintain this irritation.

 

They uninterruptedly assault Islam without substantiating their evidence.

 

  Muslims are often subjected to provocative  remarks which generally intends to hassle them.

 

This harassment is never desultory  but it’s rather purposive.

 

      Muslims tend to constantly confront vitriolic and detrimental  sentiments in the western media.

 

The genuine scholarship of Islam is deliberately precluded and brudally distorted in the western media.

 

So what about Arabic media and its role to counter this viciousness?

 

Well unfortunately, Arabic media is quite timid and diffident to even dare speaking against their masters in the west.

 

But I am not timid, I am not manipulated with western authority,  and I will basically persist to courageously speak out against bigotry, imbecility, intolerance, racism and deliberate prejudice.

 

   I tend to hear those hellions condemning, criticizing and calling for the  ban   of Shariah as well as Jihad, whilst at the same time, they notoriously   supply Israel with unlimited military aid to savagely murder innocent civilians and to constantly threaten us with its nuclear capability which is never condemned or inspected.

 

It’s deliberately dismissed by the international community including the U.N.

 

Well then, they coldly call this sabotage a self-defense which is an absolute blasphemy.    

 

    Well it’s a self-defense with White Phosphorus, heavy weapons and eminent strikes with F-16.

 

    I am now really convinced that it’s just a licit self-defense.

 

In the subsequent segment, I am going to make a stridently repudiating statements that aren’t necessarily very friendly.

 

Well first of all, I decisively discern that American people are not affiliated with their government criminal acts.

 

Second, the western self-proclaimed preeminent strikes and waged war on terror was in fact a geopolitical conflict for essentially temporal interests.

 

These noble words of the shibboleth which advocates for counterterror and so on were assumedly meant to settle the colonial occupation and to forcefully impose cultural imperialism.

 

There must be a substantial deliberation to what the western media promotes about the situation in the middle east and what about Muslims in particular, because it’s mostly prejudicial and fallacious.

 

It’s quite convenient though to  demonize Muslims out of irrational fear and ignorance.

 

      The demonization of us is essentially based on a longstanding ties of historical hatred.

 

Since the time of the series of Crusades and the series of military expeditions led by Chief, Knight and Monarch Richard the Lionheart, whilst the west is in a constant precariousness with the Muslim world.

 

           I myself am not quite fond of this unstable situation but  at the same time, I can’t deny its factuality.

 

Simultaneously, I think it’s timely to transmigrate this hostile disposition into further serenity and prosperity.

 

I never desired to have a hostile disposal with western people but at the same time, I will not be dominated at their command.

 

I basically will never  tolerate this unprecedented  antagonism and aggression.

 

I will never tolerate or forget the military invasion of Iraq and the total destruction of this great nation.

 

      I will never tolerate the hate incitement rhetoric or the speech of superiority complex.

 

I basically will never tolerate or welcome someone who arrogantly thinks of himself superior to me just because he is an American.

 

I will never tolerate someone who obliviously calls Jihad terrorism without the least command of knowledge or the least development of theological adequacy.

 

I will never tolerate self-appointed despotism which deceives people with a fraudulent  form of democracy.

  

You are not dictating your democracy on us.

 

We quite know how to live our lives prosperously.

 

At the same time, I am so proud to announce that my friends in the west are quite tolerant and respectful. 

 

They come from the United States and other western countries.

 

I have so many dear friends in Los Angeles and in other major provinces in the United States.

 

I so much respect them, I respect their familys and friends whom they grew up with.

 

I always respect cultural differences and I truly appreciate the social philosophy of multiculturalism.

 

This is the respectful manner by which I look at the relationship between the Muslim world and the western world.

 

I infinitely respect and honor the western culture, tradition and upbringing, and I will continue inshallah to do so.

 

I again renew my call for pluralism and coexistence.

 

It’s the only way for this world to prosper.

 

If we continue to dismiss the demand to unfeignedly respect each other and to stand for the liberty of one another, we will eventually end up in a sempiternal conflict.

 

  This conflict upholds to escalate because someone considers himself superior to others for essentially his racial complect and his complexion.

 

I may sound a bit rough than the way I am expected to be.

 

I will continue to uphill my dignity and to advocate for my courage and my allegiance to stand for truth.

 

In order to make this world more peaceful, we must mutually comply to recognize deference and tolerance.

 

Otherwise, we will just be complying to a unilateral policy.

 

That’s not how you seek for serenity.

 

That’s a direct challenge against someone’s ego and pride.

 

      I can’t enforce the doctrine of humility on those arrogance but I can incisively ensure they won’t practice it on me.

 

In order to earn my respect, you ought to respect me.

 

I called this essay the serene wounds, and it precisely signifies something to me.

 

It signifies my perfect awareness of the conflict, its provenience and essence.

 

At the same time, I am firmly consistent in reconciling with people whom I consider neither my  foes nor my allies.

 

They still can be the latter though if we fathom how to build mutual bridges with each other.

 

I hope I haven’t exhausted your attentiveness with that lengthy and pedantic essay.

 

Thank you for patiently reading this, thank you for your time, care and attention.

 

Thank you for respecting my standpoint.

 

I enthusiastically   look forward to hearing from those who agree as well as those who disagree with me.

 

Peace be with you.

 

Mostafa Almahdy.

 

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