[THE PERPETUAL MODE OF APOLOGY: Dear Muslims in the West, this is a reminder that we do not have to be apologetic, or show out-of-the-ordinary grief and lamentation over the Paris attacks. However, this does NOT mean that we legitimise the attacks. We of course condemn the attacks and are saddened by the loss of so many innocent people. However, some Islamophobic bigots (many of them are in state institutions and the media) just want to keep us in a perpetual mode of apology so that we never dare to speak out and hold our governments partly accountable for such terrorist attacks. So, even in this time of grief and sensitivity we have to remember what France, some other European countries, and the USA have been up to four years in the Middle East and its surroundings. It started with the first Afghan war – the “holy jihad” by “Muslims” under the command of the USA and its allies, followed by the Iraq invasion and the attack on Libya among others, and then arming of Salafist terrorists in a secular and otherwise peaceful Syria. And now the world has to reap what they all have been sowing for decades. My dear brothers and sisters, we have to break this perpetual mode and refuse to be apologetic. There is no need to try and prove to bigots that “Islam is a religion of peace”. Islam is a religion of peaceful submission to ONE God. And we submit to Him alone; neither to any “Muslim” terrorist, nor to any Islamophobic bigot.]
DR Rehan Raza Naqvi
