Johan's Controversial Post for the Next Few Months

By kakashi101. I like the photo, not the caption

Now, generally speaking, all religions nowadays forgot the Let-There-Be-Peace in the core of each of them. We preach hellfire and brimstone. 

The all-friendly Pentecostal slips their fact that ‘if you don’t accept the sovereignty of Jesus H. Christ you’ll burn in Hell’ into every religious conversation. Even Buddhists are falling to that greatest sin: Pride. Yes, some Buddhists I know look down on non-Buddhists and laugh at the eventual incarnation of these non-practitioners into animals or plants or even minerals. 

The teaching of Muslims these days… The media shows a lot already and from my experience, those ‘slanders’ have more than kernels of truth.

Now, before you scream and shout, I am saying the teachings of Guru Nanak and Jesus and Muhammad and the Buddha and Zoroaster all preach nothing but goodness. I’m saying the preaching of the followers is generally fucked up. 

We forgot about the number of time Jesus spoke of love compared to damnation. We forgot that the Buddha taught us the release of self and the ultimate unity. We forgot the Quran’s tolerance of even the worshippers of stars. We forgot how our forefathers used war as it is said in the Torah and their fate. We forgot. 

Now, there’s a patriotic war going on the Holy land. But again, we forgot. It’s a patriotic war. There’s no war waged against Islam or Judaism. There’s a war between Palestine and Israel. I am against wars. I am against the atrocities they bring. I am against the death of innocents. 

I am also against the manipulation of the name of religion in wars. This act, used not only by both sides, even third parties are using it, only smears the name of each religion. Jews won’t rest until all Muslims are dead. Islam is the prophesied anti-Christ that brings war and destruction. These are the perception we’re making for ourselves. The followers of Elijah and the Four Caliphs are doing this.

Now, some may criticize me why do I want to protect a religion that is not my own. I’ll tell you why. Most of you are either Muslims or have enough contact with Muslims to know the basic teaching of Islam. As Malaysians, we have very limited contact with Jews and Judaism. And as Malays, the only thing we know about Jews is the propaganda we learnt in school. 

Now, the regime that rules in Israel is a Zionist regime. What is the Zionist regime? Zion is the land God promised to the Jews. Zionists are those who believe that they have a God-given right to the land of Israel and therefore it is okay for them to occupy it. 

Now, Orthodox Judaism and some other sects that consider the literal aspect, as well as the metaphorical, of the Talmud and the Torah strongly oppose to the creation of a Zionist state. This is because they believe that the Messiah should herald the creation of the Jewish state not the other way round; or they are opposed to the idea that Zion HAS to have a majority of Jews. 

You can see at peace rallies in the western world people in their full Hasidic regalia, that is to say white men in black hat, black clothes and black beard, protesting against the injustice done to the Palestinians. The International Solidarity Movement was co-founded by a Jew. There are Jews-exclusive organizations such as Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Jews for Justice for Palestinians; let alone the Jew-Muslim organizations. 

Yet what we hear now are the following:
“Ya Allah, destroy Israel/the Jews.”
“In the Torah it is said that Jews must kill Muslims.”
“It’s their nature as prophet-killers.”
“Theirs is a damned race.”

However you translate the Quran, you have to remember this: it was written that God condemned them for their actions ~ it might be all the Jews or just the Jews who committed the act ~ but it was GOD who damned them. God didn’t give you the right to damn them; God didn’t give you the authorization to demonize them. 

Now, here we are touting Islam as the religion of peace and brotherhood while during prayers we ask for the destruction of a whole nation, or even race. It’s one thing to ask God for peace. It’s a whole different story to instruct God how to achieve peace. 

I advocate you to pray for the salvation of the Palestinians, not the destruction of the Israelis. No matter what creed or system of belief that you have, pray for their liberation. Do not pray for destruction. I’ve never heard of a reliable Hadith of when the Prophet prayed for destruction. Muslims believe that Muhammad is as perfect as a man can be. Muhammad himself didn’t deem himself worthy to ask for destruction, what makes us more special?

It’s not the same thing, asking for the decimation of the Israelis or even the Israeli government and the safekeeping of the Palestinians. Who are we to assign which party is guilty?

Remember one of the Hadith Qudsi, which is a Hadith where Muhammad quotes directly from God, “When God decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: 'My mercy prevails over my wrath.'”

P.S. Yes, the IDF has killed more Palestinians than the other way round but, to quote Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof, "If you demand an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, the whole world would go blind and be toothless."

P.P.S. There seems to be a LOT of Nows.