Dying anger

By M M Haque Jeddah, K.S.A
19 April 2006, 18:00 PM
The anger, frustration against the cartoonist is dying down.

No law or regulations were passed for a permanent recourse. Other religions, what they thought as blasphemous, stopped it long ago. Our value holders couldn't reach up to the tall building in New York. Our rulers couldn't join hands. Saudis squeezed the purse of the Danes, to bring benefits to the local burgeoning state of the art, 'Guinness book of world record' dairy farms.

To my perception it is all a sorry state of thought. Thought, provoked by

emotion not intelligence, all destructive actions lead to inaction and achieve nothing but frustration and hurt the common believers.

It is our belief that Islam brought what is good for mankind. It preached and prescribed things with intelligence and logic. Because we have furthered ourselves from its basics, we are in the state of deprivation.

Islam started with 'knowledge' (iqra) but do you see much of it? Look at the state of education all around the Muslim world. Whereas we were urged to travel upto 'China' for knowledge. Flushed with cash, the whole Middle East does not have a middle class university, 50% of their women cannot read or write. Why we all are systematically lagging behind?

'Islam is a complete way of life', than where is the urge to make good living for Muslims? Muslims are labelled as tempered people, they have more frustration than their demonstrated anger. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Rioters are those whose voices are unheard."