Islamophobia
Cornelius Hamelberg
People know the official and unofficial rate of exchange of the mighty dollar - dollar akbar to the weak naira, but where can we find any accurate statistics about the growth of Islam in Nigeria and the rate the rate of conversion to Islam in Nigeria?
Such knowledge could contribute to the sociologists and some of the self-made and even those who believe that they have been divinely appointed comparative religion pundits, instead of just pontificating endlessly with mystical theory, get cracking with devising strategies that could foster respect and mutual cordial relations between and among the various faith and no-faith communities.
For sceptics.
this every Muslim prays as the first part of his prayer seventeen times a day.
As to those literary scholars who habitually miss-understand al -Islam what do they make of the following words attributed to George Bernard Shaw ...(The Genuine Islam Vol.No.8, 1936)
“I believe if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship
of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way
that would bring much needed peace and happiness.
I have studied
him - the man and in my opinion is far from being an anti–Christ.
He must be called the Saviour of Humanity. I have prophesied about
the faith of Mohammad that it would be acceptable the Europe of
tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of
today.”(What
people have said about the Prophet Muhammad ( S.A.W.) and Islam)
With that kind of recommendation coming from such an apogee of Western Values and even the foibles of Western Civilisation, and with Islam as the fastest -growing religion in Africa, in Europe and in the World, the past three decades, it's understandable that there is the gnawing fear – in some quarters - of the conversion to Islam wave sweeping over Europe and resulting in what could evolve into the Caliphate of Eurabia.
And therefore – so say some of the conspiracy theorists, the many wars that in effect are being engineered against Islam and the people of Prophet Muhammed (sallallahu alayhi wa salaam) - that the enemies of Islam have infiltrated and now control some of the most important Islamic movements and have even created new ones. That it is the enemies of Islam that are financing terrorism – in order to distort and discredit Islam, associating Islam with terror...
Fortunately, (smile) there is no parallel fear of Bi-Africans and their power ideology colonising Europe or the rest of Nigeria...
You want to know who are the enemies of Islam?
This piece appeared in the Washington post a few days ago : What do ordinary citizens in the Arab world really think about the Islamic State?