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We have grown accustomed to the fact that when an event is described in the media and politics as extremism and attributed to a Muslim, the official machinery mobilizes, exploits the event, and employs the shock to raise grand slogans, summon imminent danger, and impose a comprehensive package of legal, educational, and media changes.
These changes restrict dissenting voices, further strip the nation of its Islamic identity, and push through policies that would be difficult to pass under normal circumstances, reshaping awareness and reality. All of this is done under the slogan: "No voice rises above the sound of the battle," because we are now in a battle against extremism, and any objection is treason and sympathy with extremism. One of the many examples of this is the exploitation of the September 2001 events by the United States.
In contrast, Muslim societies have experienced major political and moral earthquakes that could have restored their lost identity and uprooted Western dependency, but they were not utilized. Among these in recent years are:
All of this exposed the falsehood of claims of human rights, equality, and international law, proving that the world is a jungle that recognizes only resolute force. These events are not isolated incidents that happened in moments—as was the case with the French teacher who insulted the Prophet peace be upon him at the hands of a Muslim—but rather events representing the international system in its entirety, spanning decades, with millions of stories of oppression and crime.
The question here is: Why have Muslim societies, as peoples and individuals, not employed these shocks to bring about a radical review of the imposed intellectual paradigms? Why have they not sought to uproot the remnants of Western culture and replace them with concepts of referring to Sharia and pride in Islamic reference?
Why have they not employed them to restore confidence in Quranic concepts and verses related to the struggle against the forces of falsehood and the establishment of Islam’s sovereignty—concepts many Muslims shy away from? Why does the status quo remain as if nothing has happened?
Reflect on yourself: At the level of your awareness of your religion, your courage to present religious discourse in your place of study or work, the appearance and hijab of your daughters, your pride in your religion when issues arise that the United Nations and its affiliates—such as "human rights shops"—like guardianship and polygamy stir controversy around—has any of this changed in proportion to the magnitude of those earthquakes?
Observe that all of this is within the realm of possibility for peoples; no one can prevent you from making these changes in your thought, awareness, feelings, and the reality you possess. Nations are not shaped solely by the events that befall them but also by how they read those events and by their courage to extract conclusions from them and build upon them.
So muster the courage to employ these shocks, reclaim your stolen principles, and reject corruption with strength and pride, without hesitation or ambiguity.
Peace.