We Don't Need Another Provocation
An Opinion from three world Islamic leaders, including Indonesian Muhammadiyah’s Din Syamsuddin, about the Geerts Wilder’s hatred and provocative film.
Another provocation
By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hansona, Din Syamsuddin and Prince Hassan bin Talal
IHT, Published: March 25, 2008
Wilders’s film is the latest in a series of provocations against Muslim communities in Holland, and against Islam in general. Its title, “Fitna,” is taken from an Arabic word meaning chaos and civil strife.It seems that this is also Wilders’s intended outcome in producing the work. He argues that most Dutch Muslims should leave Holland or tear up at least half the Koran if they wish to stay. He promises that his film will definitively show “the violent and fascist elements of the Muslim faith.”
There is no doubt that a small number of criminal extremists have committed violence in the name of Islam in recent years. But they do not represent the overwhelming majority of Muslims.
The Gallup poll also shows that the tiny minority of people who believe that violence can sometimes be justified rarely use religion or the Koran to support their views. Their reasons are mostly geopolitical. In other words, Wilders’s anti-Muslim ranting is not only racist, it is inaccurate.
According to a discussion I’ve read, the film, which is not accurate, contains a short (targgetted-cut) scene which is intended to portrays how muslim are intollerant, racist, and hatred. Which we all knew is not Islam. Which we all understand is not the core of Islam. Openly speaking, all religions seems have a mall portions of radical followers, but they are not those religions means. Religions give a message of peaceful world to its follower.
We don’t need another hatred or racist provocation. We need to build a better dialog. We need to build a better understandings.
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