When you're committing a heinous act but think you're in the right
No, this isn't about what you think it is...
I published a short piece about the self-defeating practice of attacking each other online.
The same applies whether we attack individuals or groups. I don't care if it's a school of thought or a Muslim country…
Muslims attacking Muslims only benefits the enemy.
And I don't care how you try to rationalise it. I'm not even saying you have to like a certain scholar or Muslim leader…
Even if you hate them in your heart, don't put it in words or writing.
We must realise every negative utterance we make about anything to do with Muslims harms no one but ourselves.
If I wanted to brainwash my enemy into thinking he is powerless I would make him repeat negative words about his family, teachers, leaders or anything that would otherwise bind him to the cause I'm trying to defeat.
I’m going to write it again in case it didn’t register:
If I wanted to brainwash my enemy
into thinking he is powerless
I would make him repeat negative words
about his family, teachers, leaders
or anything
that would otherwise bind him
to the cause I'm trying to defeat.
I would make him think he is weak in every area. That he has everyone but himself to blame (taking away his sense of personal responsibility).
And I would convince him I have my hand in every pie.
No matter where he looks… I'm in control.
I would exaggerate my power even if I had none.
This is precisely what our enemy is doing. And it isn't a new idea.
In military terms it's called: morale.
Anything you can do to lower your enemy's morale will make him easier to destroy.
And here we are… doing the enemy's dirty work.
They don't even have to tie us down and force us to repeat negative ideas about each other.
We’re voluntarily parroting the enemy's propaganda.
Constantly sharing negative news about Muslim countries whilst inflating the enemy's power makes us think we can't do anything except sit and wait for a saviour.
If Muslims stop doing this we would have the mental clarity to find the solutions we need… and the means to do something about it.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
We deprive ourselves of the agency of necessity by:
Blaming others
Inflating the enemy's power
Directing our anger at each other instead of the enemy
Rationalising our manufactured divisions and hate for each other
Even if tweeting or forwarding a negative headline about a Muslim individual or country seems small to you… it does nothing except harm Muslims. It has a ripple effect. It creates division and chaos.
It leads to destabilisation.
It enables Muslim suffering.
It causes Muslim deaths.
And the enemy knows it.
When will we?
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